Equipment: Unix system accessible via Windows workstations, Network Simulator ns and
Network Animator nam and on-line tutorial. Network Simulator ns and Network Animator nam
are described in the document "NS for Beginners", by Altman and Jimenez http://www-
sop.inria.fr/maestro/personnel/Eitan.Altman/COURS-NS/n3.pdf. Tools are available for
downloading from http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-build.html.
2. Logging in:
• First enter your Unix user ID (the Unix account is different from your usual network account)
and click [OK];
• And then password (differently from Netware it is not visible at all how many characters are
entered - so, be careful!) and click [OK];
• After some time there appears a window suggesting you to register as a Solaris user – go to
the upper-left corner, left-click-and-hold and move to the "Close" and this window will
disappear.
3. Access to Tutorial:
• With the help of File Manager navigate to the /internet/ns/docs/tutorial/ns-tutorial/index.html
and start browser by clicking on this file – it will start Marc Greis's tutorial. Focus on Chapters
IV, V, VI and VIII;
• After familiarisation with textual editing of tcl scripts try to use graphical editor available in
nam and repeat the same exercises as in the tutorial. Which features you think are missing in
the Editor?
• There are other tutorials which you may want to explore sometime later - look at the directory
/internet/ns/docs/tutorial/ .
A.Pakštas 1 of 1 NS2-T1.doc
21.10.2008