[ns] Wired-Wireless Trace... message at MAC layer?

[David Ross]

David Ross wrote:
> Syed Faraz Hasan wrote:
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> I simulated a wired-wireless scenario in NS-2. There is one wired 
>> node, connected to base station node. BS is further connected to 
>> wireless node. Wireless node is sending TCP traffic to wired node via 
>> BS. I get the trace file without error but I could not understand a 
>> few messages in trace file.
>>
>> For example
>> What does this "message" mean?
>> s 0.035412973 _1_ MAC --- 1 message 90 [0 ffffffff 0 800] ------- 
>> [4194304:255 -1:255 32 0]
>> Only MAC trace and Wired Trace is ON
>> Can some one please help me on this.
> It is a routing advertisment (possibly DSDV?) being broadcast from 
> node 1's routing via node 1's MAC layer
>
> - David Ross
>  QUT, Brisbane, Australia.
To add a little more:
Sent, time, _node_, MAC trace, no-error, packet#, type, bytes, [(in hex) 
duration field (0 µs), receiver address, transmitter address and 
ether-type], -------, [(in decimal) IP source address:source port (255), 
IP destination address (-1):destination port (255), IP time-to-live (32) 
and next hop (0)]

- David Ross
   QUT, Brisbane, Australia.