[ns] Why delay with no-delay link?

[Lloyd Wood]

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Haobo Yu wrote:

> latency = propagation delay + transmission delay (ignore queueing delay).
> you set transmission delay to 0 

he's setting link _propagation_ delay to 0, surely?

remaining time is time of packet transmission, dependent on
(packet length)/(link bandwidth).

L.

and fudged a bit for headers etc.

> but you still have the former. See
> Peterson and Davie's networking book...
> 
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Antonello wrote:
> 
> > hi, I'm facing a very strange problem: if I create a simplelink or duplexlink
> > with no delay (0 ms), analyzing the tracefile I expected that th differnece
> > between the 'r' event and '-' event is th transmission time...but it is not
> > so...why?

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