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Network Simulator - Simulator intended for networking research

'Ns' is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research. It provides substantial support for simulation of TCP, routing, and multicast protocols over wired and wireless (local and satellite) networks. It includes an optional network animator (nam).

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/
Source tarballhttp://www.isi.edu/nsnam/dist/ns-src-2.26.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-build.html
Version 2.26 (stable) released on 2003-02-03
Licensed under GPL.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual available in HTML format from http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/index.html; User manual available in PDF format from http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/ns_doc.pdf; User manual available in PostScript format from http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/ns_doc.ps.gz; User tutorial available in HTML format from http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/tutorial/index.html
Support contacts

Announce List<ns-announce@isi.edu> http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/ns-kannounce
Help List<ns-users@isi.edu> http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/ns-users
Bug Databasehttp://www.isi.edu/cgi-bin/nsnam/reportbug.cgi

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Sponsors
  • DARPA, National Science Federation (USA)

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Programsns, nam
Source languagesC++, Tcl

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-06-24
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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