Network Simulator 2

Install

Chao-Ying Chiu
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Install Cygwin
Install NS2
Test NS2 Example

Install Environment

Linux

NS2

Windows

Cygwin+NS2
VMWare+NS2

Download Files before Install

Cygwin

/cg/

/ftp%3a%2f%2fcygwin.csie.ntu.edu.tw%2fpub
%2fcygwin/

Files before Install (con.)

Cygwin

http://cygwin.com/

Files before Install (con.)

NS2

http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/dist/ns-allinone-2.27.
tar.gz
55MB

Install Cygwin

Download

Execute setup.exe (20~30 minutes)

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Install From Internet

Download From Internet

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Install From Local Directory

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Cygwin

Execute

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Cygwin (con.)

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Cygwin (con.)

Type startx

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Install NS2

Download

http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/dist/ns-allinone-2.27.
tar.gz
55MB

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ns2 cygwin/home/

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Type gzip -d -c ns-allinone-2.27.tar.gz | tar

xvf - ( )

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Type cd ns-allinone-2.27

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Type ./install

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NS2

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Update your environment variables:

export NS_HOME=`pwd`
export PATH=$NS_HOME/tcl8.4.5/unix:$NS_HOME/tk8.4.5/unix:$NS_HOME/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NS_HOME/tcl8.4.5/unix:$NS_HOME/tk8.4.5/unix:\
$NS_HOME/otcl-1.8:$NS_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export TCL_LIBRARY=$NS_HOME/tcl8.4.5/library

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Install NS2 (con.)

To avoid retyping these commands everytime you login you can do the
following, after having updated your environment variables as described
above:

Type pwd at the command prompt

Note what the shell returns: a directory of the form /home/XXX/nsallinone-2.27/ (where XXX is your login name)

Update your ~/.bashrc file by adding the following commands to it:

export NS_HOME=/home/XXX/ns-allinone-2.27/

export PATH=$NS_HOME/tcl8.4.5/unix:$NS_HOME/tk8.4.5/unix:$NS_HOME/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NS_HOME/tcl8.4.5/unix:$NS_HOME/tk8.4.5/unix:\
$NS_HOME/otcl-1.8:$NS_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export TCL_LIBRARY=$NS_HOME/tcl8.4.5/library

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where you replace /home/XXX/ns-allinone2.27/ by whatever pwd returned. Make sure

you respect the line breaks as shown above.

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Type cd ns-2.27

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Type ./validate ( 70~80 )

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NS2

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Test NS2 Example (con.)

NS2

C:\cygwin\home\ \ns-allinone-2.27\ns2.27\tcl\ex

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Test NS2 Example (con.)

Type cd tcl/ex

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Test NS2 Example (con.)

Type startx

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Test NS2 Example (con.)

simple.tcl

Type ns simple.tcl

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Reference

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~christin/nscygwin.shtml

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