[Ns-developers] [ns3] Availability of output format?

[Gustavo Carneiro]

On 22/05/2008, alrowe at mines.edu <alrowe at mines.edu> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm currently working on the newest iteration of the iNSpect project (
> http://toilers.mines.edu/Toilers/NsInspectProject), and would like to add
> the ability to parse and visualize NS-3 wired and wireless trace files. I
> did some minimal digging through the Ns-developers archive, and didn't see a
> concrete description of the output trace file format. If you have a format
> available, or perhaps some sample trace files from NS-3, I would appreciate
> having them so that I can implement NS-3 functionality into iNSpect.


Hi Alan.

I think NS-3 is not supposed to provide a stable trace format of any sort,
and that you are supposed to use the "tracing" API (e.g. Config::Connect) to
connect callback handlers to the events you are interested in and save in
whatever file format you like.

[ I'm not sure how "ascii tracing" fits into the above description ]

Hope this helps.

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert