[ns] Validation tests fail after UMTS (EURANE) patch on ns-2.29.3

[Raino Lintulampi]

Hi,
I have installed EURANE patch to ns-2.29.3 release on Fedore 5 core
(kernel version 2.6.15, gcc version 4.1.0).
Without the EURANE patch only some validation tests on test-suite-red.tcl
fails that is the known problem with the Fedora core
(http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/User_Information#Validating_your_build).
However, after EURANE patching more validations tests fail:
----------------------------
Test output differs from reference output
Diagnose with: diff test-output-wpan/wpan.test test-output-wpan/wpan
Or see URL "http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-problems.html".
Some test failed.
Thu Aug  3 14:27:26 EEST 2006
These messages are NOT errors and can be ignored:
    warning: using backward compatibility mode
    This test is not implemented in backward compatibility mode

validate overall report: some tests failed:
     ./test-all-simple ./test-all-tcp ./test-all-newreno ./test-all-sack
./test-all-simple-full ./tes t-all-full ./test-all-testReno-bayfull
./test-all-sack-full ./test-all-rfc793edu ./test-all-sctp ./te
st-all-tcpHighspeed ./test-all-friendly ./test-all-lan ./test-all-red
./test-all-cbq ./test-all-sched ule ./test-all-monitor ./test-all-mcache
./test-all-links ./test-all-plm ./test-all-linkstate ./test- all-snoop
./test-all-tagged-trace ./test-all-wpan
to re-run a specific test, cd tcl/test; ./test-all-TEST-NAME
Notice that some tests in webcache will fail on freebsd when -O is turned on.
This is due to some event reordering, which will disappear when -g is turned on.
-----------------------------------

Has someone else noticed the same behaviour with the EURANE patch and/or analysed
what may be the reason and how meaningfull/serious the variations in 
the results are? Any idea how to correct the patch?

BTW. To make EURANE patch work in 2.29.3 you don't need gcc patch for 
ns-2.28. However, you have to check manually EURANE patch code 
because due to differences between
2.28 and 2.29.3 all files cannot be patched correctly.

Thanks in advance
Raino