Hello Mowly,
You might want to try the Pcap/BPF Network Object to read a packet trace from a file in tcpdump format. http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/node574.html Best regards, Svilen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am just putting this question out there to see if it is possible to >implement. Right now I only have access to one laptop. I am running >ns-2.27 with pclinuxos. So far I was able to 'make nse' and did not >return any error messages however I still can't run the pingdemo.tcl. >But the question is this: > >I want the emulator to be able to read a tracefile (a large one >perhaps that of a half an hour show) in real time and at the same time >output the packets perhaps to a reciever tracefile that is constantly >updated as packets arrive. Next the tracefile is read by a real time >player such as VLC (I think it has real time capabilities) and outputs >the video So I can readily view the real-time video as it is being >emulated. I have to all this in one machine or the laptop. > >Is it possible or has anyone done anything like this before that can >offer me some direction? Thank you. > >Cheers >Mowly > > > > -- +------------------------------------------+ | M.Sc. Svilen Ivanov | | Institute for Distributed Systems (IVS) | | Otto-von-Guericke University - Magdeburg | | http://ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~svilen/ | +------------------------------------------+