Hi! First of all, please post your questions to the mailing list. It adds value to the list.
Yes, you can have multiple versions of ns running in parallel, but you need to be very careful how you set up your paths. Please search the web for setting up paths in the shell. That will search your other problems you wrote about. Best regards, Mats Syed Faraz Hasan wrote: > Dear Mats, > > Please advise me, can I have both NS-2.33 and NS-2.30 at the same > time? Will they both ok if they coexist or do I need to get rid of > one for th other? > > Thanks a lot in anticipation > > Faraz > > ________________________________________ > From: ns-users-boun...@isi.edu [ns-users-boun...@isi.edu] On Behalf > Of Mats Folke [mats.fo...@ericsson.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:47 AM > To: ns-users@isi.edu > Subject: Re: [ns] UMTS on NS-2 > > Hi! > > Syed Faraz Hasan wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Reference to my previous email about UMTS implementation on NS-2. Can >> some one tell me if I need a separate patch for UMTS while working on >> NS-2.33? If so, where can I download it from? I have seen >> http://eurane.ti-wmc.nl/eurane/, patch available there is in diff.gz >> format. I am a newbie to open suse linux, I think I should be after >> something .tar.gz? > > There is currently no patch for ns-2.33 and since Eurane is not > supported anymore, there probably never will be. You have two > options. 1) Download ns-2.30 and patch with existing eurane patch. If > you need something introduced in later versions of ns-2, you cannot > use it. 2) Patch an existing ns-2.33 with the eurane patch for > ns-2.30. This could result in difficulties which you must manually > resolve. > > The patching procedure is documented in the manual, section 2.3. > > A patch is distributed in something called a diff-file, hence the > file extension .diff. Gzip then adds the extension .gz. Before > pathing the .diff.gz file needs to be uncompressed using gunzip. The > result will be the diff-file. > >> Anyway, when I download and open eurane1.12.diff.gz, it gives an >> error "associated help application does not exist"! This patch is >> available for NS-2.30, I am using 2.33. > > What gives an error? A patch file should not be "opened", see the > eurane manual for correct usage, or the patch man page, or google for > "unix command patch" or similar. > >> Also, what is CLEAN NS-2.3 > > A clean version is a version not messed up by changes, builds etc. A > fresh downloaded version is a clean version. > >> I downloaded test_tcp.tcl (UMTS implementation on NS-2 test run), >> without installing any patch on my existing NS-2.33. When I execute >> it, it says >> >> (_o3 cmd line 1) >> invoked from within >> "_o3 cmd create-Umtsnode" >> . >> . >> . >> "$ns create-Umtsnode" >> invoked from within >> "set rnc [$ns create-Umtsnode]" >> file "umtstcp.tcl line 42 > > This is because ns-2 (without the patch) does not understand the > instructions in those tcl files. You need the patch to be able to run > the tcl files. > > Regards, -- 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
