Hi! Wouldn't it be kind of dangerous to drop the packet using the first method described? The packet would jsut disappear and the logs would not be consistent. I would recommend using the latter method
drop(p) instead. This makes the logging consistent and almost all objects I've come across where I would like to drop packets have been Connector objects. Best regards, Mats Folke Teerawat Issariyakul wrote: > Hi, > > Suppose you have a pointer "p". You can drop the packet by executing > > > Packet::free(p) > > Also the packet "*p" can be dropped from within the Connector object > by invoking function drop as follows: > > drop(p); > > > Note that "drop(p)" is a function of class Connector, and therefore > must be invoked from within the scope of class Connector. > > I posted how to drop a a packet in the following blog: > > http://t-issariyakul.blogspot.com/2009/03/ns2-dropping-packet.html > > For more information about Connector and Packet, see Chapters 5 and 8, > respectively, in the following book from Springer: > > T. Issaraiyakul and E. Hossain, "Introduction to Network Simulator > NS2", Springer 2008. > http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/book/978-0-387-71759-3 > > You may also find the following website useful: > http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~teerawat/NS2.htm > > On 3/13/2009, "muralikrishna g" <muralikrishn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi to all.. >> >> i am using ns-2.33, here in my work i have to drop packets from a >> particular sender, i am planing to drop packets depending on the >> sender node_id >> >> please help me regarding this.. >> >> by >> >> Muralikrishna Gaddam (muralikrishn...@gmail.com) -- Mats Folke, M.Sc., Lic.Eng. Research Engineer Ericsson AB Office: +46 10 7171385 Ericsson Research Fax: +46 920 99621 P.O. Box 920 Mobile: +46 76 1271385 SE-971 28 Luleå Sweden
