[Ns-developers] Network Simulation Cradle 0.3.0 released

[Sam Jansen]

The Network Simulation Cradle (NSC) version 0.3.0 has now been
released. The download is in the usual place:

 http://research.wand.net.nz/software/nsc.php

NSC is a project that allows real world TCP/IP stacks to be used in
simulation. More information can be found at
http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/nsc/.

This version includes many new changes:
 * Linux 2.6.18 added
 * globaliser updated to version 1.1.0, supporting much more C syntax
 * Support for QoS packet schedulers/queues e.g., HTB. The "tc"
application is part-ported to NSC to allow configuration of this
 * Simulator/stack interface changed, cleaned up
 * All shared libraries share a consistent naming convention (version
numbers included)
 * Better support for NIC <-> stack interactions
 * Audit all changes made to Linux 2.6.18. Cleaned things up so only 2
files header need to be modified to allow Linux to work in NSC.
Checksums are not re-enabled for all stacks following this effort.
This makes adding future Linux stacks drastically simpler, it is now
simple to include up to 2.6.21 at least. Further work on including
more versions is expected for the next release
 * Various code cleanups internally