Hello, I am working on a simulation for a newly developed protocol in wireless ad-hoc networks. After quite some digging and experimenting I managed to find out how to send a Broadcast package (http://nuraini.net/2007/09/16/unicast-and-broadcat-packet-on-ns2/ is probably the best source). Now that I am able to send broadcast packages, I'd also like to be able to receive them.
I found a message sent to this list almost a decade ago: http://isi.edu/nsnam/archive/ns-users/webarch/2000/msg02832.html This explains on how one would have to go about patching ns2 so a broadcast packet can be received by something other than the routing agent. As this post is 9 years old, this got me wondering: are there some specific issues related to broadcast handling, that this has not yet been included in the mainline ns2? Or is there actually a better way to achieve this? I also read about a lot of people having problems finding the LL object in the C++-Code. I too ran into this issue but found that using the "target_" of the agent works just as well. Is using "target_" a valid way of broadcasting or is this going to come back and haunt me when I do more advanced stuff in my Agent? Regards, Damian Philipp
