to install different ns2 versions on my system
 

hello kudfl,

I was working on ns2.32 . But now i require ns2.34 also . I read some of threads and found it is possible to have two diffrent ns2 versions on the same machine.
Installed ns2.32 and ns2.34 in diffrent directories.
Installed successfully . when i type ns % sign appears . But i dont know which ns version it is running ?

i read ur thread 2 on the following link
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ne-4175503576/

so i delete the path varibale for ns2.32 from bashrc file .
and did the following
ns-2.32/ : $ cp ns ns-orig
cp ns-orig /usr/local/bin/
but it is giving me error : permission denied .

working on ubuntu 12.04
plz advise further

rgds
sims

You can have as many ns-allinone-2.xx as you want, on the same OS.
( I have about 170 on one OS ! )

"$ cp ns-orig /usr/local/bin/" is wrong.
Right is : $ sudo cp ns-orig /usr/local/bin/

As all simulation files.tcl can be run with $ ns-any-name
.. you are supposed to save all the 'ns' executable`s as e.g. :
/usr/local/bin/{ ns, ns-orig, ns232, ns234, ns232-<protocol>, ns234-<protocol> }.

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thanks a lot.
My problem resolved.

Is there a need to store ns path in bashrc file . directly we can run our programs with ns232 or ns234 command .

Re #3.
No. The advice to do so, is an old text (~1999),
from a time when students used the 'University Computers',
and thus had no write access to /usr/.
Today we run 'make install', and get /usr/local/bin/ns ,
.. or we copy ns-<any-name> to usr/local/bin/.

The executable ns (and ns-new-name) is hard coded to know the library location:
ns-allinone-2.xx/{ bin/tcsh8* , lib/*/* }.

Xgraph path : $ sudo apt-get install xgraph
Nam path : No usable 'nam' packages from Ubuntu, get one here ...
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-4175524760/#2

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thanks

could you please help me

I want to make a new protocol in ns2. Could you please tell me "how a simulation tcl script would be executed internally in ns2". That is how aodv.cc would be called from a simulation script.
Although we define AODV as Val(rp) , but recv would be called or command function or anything else
In command function , we write argv[1] == "start" . is it same as "$cbr start" .

I would be very greatful if you provide me some link or give some insights under this.

Re #5.
There is no internal (ns-2.xx/), so far concerns a simulation.
Everything {c++, otcl, tcl/lib/*} is compiled into one file : The executable 'ns'.

For an 'ns' from an ns-allinone-2.xx/ to run, these tcl files are used :
ns-allinone-2.35/{ bin/tcsh8*, lib/*/* }.
(Some simulations will also use ns-2.xx/tcl//<tcl-"libraries">, //"scene-files".)

I don't know. See http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/index.html
And ... you can ask here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ns2

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I want to ask the following --
Suppose we have a simulation script "wireless.tcl " . In this file we create agents and invoking mobility file , traffic file cbr etc. ....... when we run this .tr and .nam file would be created.
We also have in ns2.32 or in any ns folder --> .cc files , .h files , packet files etc. How this functionality automatically would be called from a tcl script file.

if anyone else can help , kindly do

thanks & regards

Re #7.

See post #6 : Usually you will save the following :
1) /usr/local/bin/{ ns, ns-orig, ns232, ns-<any-name> }.
2) ns-allinone-2.32/{ bin/, lib/ }.
3) Examples, with the connected (tcl) files : Saved in a random location.
.... I.e. no files are called, it's all inside the executable "ns".


There are ways to call a file outside 'ns', but I have never seen it in use.
. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...cl-4175464805/
. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...9/#post4094259
< http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ines-813129/#7
. http://wiki.tcl.tk/1491
C++ http://cpptcl.sourceforge.net/doc/quickstart.html
. http://wiki.tcl.tk/13040
. http://cpptcl.sourceforge.net/

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