[ns] Multi-interface support howto, Ramon Submission

[Ramon Aguero]

Hello,

Why have you declared nIfaces, targetlist and ifqueuelist in common/packet.h?

Cheers,
Ramón

At 07:34 06/02/2007, Nguyen Lan wrote:
>Hi Ramon and all,
>
>After following the document when I recompile ns I got this error. Maybe I 
>was wrong some where
>
>aodv/aodv.o:/usr/local/ns/mulf/ns-allinone-2.27/tclcl-1.15/tclcl.h:60: 
>multiple definition of `nIfaces'
>aodv/aodv_logs.o:./common/packet.h:413: first defined here
>aodv/aodv.o:./aodv/aodv_packet.h:161: multiple definition of `targetlist'
>aodv/aodv_logs.o:./common/packet.h:353: first defined here
>aodv/aodv.o:aodv/aodv.cc:65: multiple definition of `ifqueuelist'
>aodv/aodv_logs.o:./common/packet.h:423: first defined here
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>make: *** [ns] Error 1
>
>Could anyone help me.
>
>Thanks
>Ramon Aguero wrote:
>>Hi Anthony,
>>
>>thanks for your feedback; I think that your proposal is perfectly fine.
>>
>>I've sent an email previously, about the same changes. I think that the 
>>problem was that in the first version of the document we did not 
>>highlight a couple of lines (the ones that you've modified); in the 
>>original ns-mobilenode.tcl file, these two lines started with $arptable_ 
>>**Note the underscore**
>>
>>In the modified procedure, however, it was $arptable **Without the 
>>underscore**, which is, exactly what you propose, since the $arptable 
>>variable is $arptable_($t).
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Ramón
>>
>>At 07:29 04/02/2007, Anthony Plummer wrote:
>>
>>>Ramon's submission (http://personales.unican.es/aguerocr/) of a
>>>multiple-channel extension to ns2 works well after a slight
>>>modification to the code in the pdf.  In tcl/lib/ns-mobilenode.tcl the
>>>arptable modification (pg. 24 & 25 of pdf) needs to change the
>>>arptable in two additional lines.
>>>         #We also create one ARP table per interface
>>>         set arptable_($t) [new ARPTable $self $mac]
>>>         set arptable $arptable_($t)
>>>                 # FOR backward compatibility sake, hack only
>>>         if {$imepflag != ""} {
>>>                 set drpT [$self mobility-trace Drop "IFQ"]
>>>         } else {
>>>                 set drpT [cmu-trace Drop "IFQ" $self]
>>>         }
>>>         $arptable_($t) drop-target $drpT  // Should be changed to this here
>>>         if { $namfp != "" } {
>>>                 $drpT namattach $namfp
>>>         }
>>>
>>>         #
>>>         # Link Layer
>>>         #
>>>         $ll arptable $arptable_($t)   // Should be changed to this here
>>>         $ll mac $mac
>>>         $ll down-target $ifq
>>>
>>
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>>
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