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

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 21:59 +0000, Tom Henderson wrote:
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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''
> >Cc: ''ns-developers''
> >Subject: RE: [Ns-developers] Csma, ethernet length field,	NSC and the     linkmtu...
> >
> >
> >> 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".

I don't think we have any attributes for these MTUs in p2p and csma.
There is one in wifi/wifi-mac.cc and it is named MaxMsduSize

regards,
Mathieu