[Ns-developers] Csma, ethernet length field, NSC and the linkmtu...

[Tom Henderson]

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>From: craigdo at ee.washington.edu [mailto:craigdo at ee.washington.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 01:30 PM
>To: ''Tom Henderson'', ''Mathieu Lacage''
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>Subject: RE: [Ns-developers] Csma, ethernet length field,	NSC and the     linkmtu...
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>> I suggest to avoid "MTU" term for anything but the (Mac) MTU, 
>> or else we have another round of ifIndex problems.  
>
>Smile.  I was already caught up in an ifIndex equivalent problem here :-)
>
>Consider it done.  I'm dealing with a problem in the emulated net device
>now, but I'll fix up both point-to-point and csma to reflect these
>discussions this afternoon).
>

This will be a case where we change a default value, and possibly rename an attribute (don't know whether attribute renaming is in your plan).  Please make a recommendation, when you are done with this exercise, on how we can document and minimize impact along the lines of "avoid making subtle, transparent changes to the simulator underneath users".

Thanks,
Tom