[ns] assigning IP address to nodes

[Marlos Marques]

Thank you very much guys. I was considering if those structures exist in NS,
in some way they are ready for use. I wouldn't like to reinvent the wheel
:) So, any link/example/source would be *much* appreciated. Thanks again.


[]s,
Marlos.


On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Arturo Servin <aservin at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
>        If you are working with your code in TCL may be you can make a map
> Node_ID (from ns) to an IP address in your TCL script. If you are
> working in C++ you can do what Sidney proposes.
>
>        Either way you have a way to do it, may be not trivial but
> definitely
> possible.
>
> -as
>
> On 5 Nov 2008, at 15:55, Sidney Doria wrote:
>
> >
> > The best of NS-2 is its flexibility. If you didn't find a trivial
> > solution to assign a simple IP to a node, you can add a new attribute
> > to an inherited class of node. You can simply bind this new attribute
> > in your TCL script and assign what IP you want on the node you want.
> >
> > The new atrribute can be of type nsaddr_t (IP address).
> >
> > Hope to be useful,
> >
> > Sidney Doria
> > Brazil
> >
> > 2008/11/5 Marlos Marques <marlosmarques01 at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> Currently, I am trying to implement an application layer multicast
> >> algorithm
> >> using NS2. For this purpose I need to assign IP address to every
> >> node in
> >> NS2. I checked out the NS2 nodes may have hierarchical routing
> >> addressing
> >> which is similar to IP addressing. But, I also found the "addr"
> >> command
> >> which apparently allows you to configure the node IP, so I can run
> >> the
> >> following code:
> >>
> >> set ns [new Simulator]
> >> set n0 [$ns node]
> >> set n1 [$ns node]
> >> $n0 addr "192.168.1.1"
> >> $n1 addr "192.168.1.2"
> >>
> >> But in the trace file I keep getting sequential identifiers. For
> >> example:
> >>
> >> + 0 1 2 tcp 40 ------- 2 1.0 5.0 0 0
> >>
> >> But I would like to get this one:
> >>
> >> + 0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 tcp 40 ------- 2 1.0 5.0 0 0
> >>
> >> What am I doing wrong?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Marlos
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
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> >
>
>