[Click] Click support in ns-3

[Ruben Merz]

Dear Eddie,

On 6/2/11 1:48 AM, Eddie Kohler wrote:
> Hi Ruben,
>
> A couple integration notes:
>
> (1) Do you think we should keep the old ns-2 patches? This seems
> worthwhile, at least for now, but I never test these patches and don't
> know how old they are. If the networking community has decisively
> switched to ns-3, we could delete the ns-2 patches (or, at least, delete
> the 2.30 patch).

I don't think I have enough authority to answer this question. Anyway, 
right now, the ns-3 version does not support all the features of the 
ns-2 version yet.

> (2) Some of Click's documentation needs updating to support ns-3. In
> particular:
>
> * INSTALL, from the distribution
> * Possibly README
> * Possibly etc/README
> * Wiki "Getting started with nsclick":
> http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/click/nsclick
>
> Do you think you and/or Lalith Suresh will be able to help update this
> documentation? For the distribution files, I would prefer a github pull
> request or patch. For the Wiki -- which should *at least* link to
> http://www.nsnam.org/docs/models/index.html#document-click -- I have
> given you and Lalith both write access; you could add a section about
> ns-3. Let us know.

Sure, Lalith and I can do that.

Best,
Ruben

> Again, thank you, this is great news.
> Eddie
>
>
> On 05/26/2011 01:08 PM, Ruben Merz wrote:
>> Dear Click users,
>>
>> We would like to announce the availability of Click support in the
>> ns-3 simulator (http://www.nsnam.org). This work is the outcome of the
>> ns-3 GSOC 2010 project of Lalith Suresh. The code is available now, with
>> the latest ns-3.11 release (http://www.nsnam.org/download.html).
>> Feature-wise, we believe it is quite complete. Nevertheless, development
>> is still underway in order to support promiscuous mode (patch to Click
>> coming soon) as well as the ability to support Click elements relying on
>> radiotap headers (thanks to the NSOC project of Ashwin Narayan
>> http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/NSOC2011ClickMac).
>>
>> Documentation is available here:
>> http://www.nsnam.org/docs/models/index.html#document-click as well as
>> from the accompanying examples, the ns-3 tutorial or its manual.
>>
>> Feel free to contact the ns-3-users mailing list
>> (http://groups.google.com/group/ns-3-users), Lalith or myself if you
>> have any question.
>>
>> Best,
>> Ruben
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