[Ns-developers] packet tags

[Joseph Kopena]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Mathieu Lacage
<mathieu.lacage at sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
> There are really two conflicting major use-cases for packet tags:
>   a) temporary ancillary data attached to packets as they flow up and
> down the stack.
>   b) long-term metadata attached to a packet as it travels through a
> simulation and crosses multiple nodes.

Hi Mathieu,

Would you (or someone) elaborate on what is mutually exclusive about
these two cases?  It's not obvious to me why/how they conflict.

Thx

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