Installing NS 2

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Installing NS 2

by Teerawat Issariyakul

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March 2010

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OutlineKnown Issues as of March 2010Working SolutionStep-by-Step Installation

◦ Ubuntu◦ Windows

Acknowledgement

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NS2 DOES NOT work under the following environment.

Possible cause: gcc version!

Known Issues as of March 2010

Window platform:o version XP and 7o NS2 version: 2.33 and

2.34o Cygwin 1.5.25 and

1.7.1o gcc version 3.4.4-999

Ubuntu platform:o version 9.10o gcc version 4.4.1


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These two solutions are tested. They DO WORK!!

Note: ns-2.35 checks for gcc4 and gcc4-g++ rather than gcc and gcc-g++

Working Solution

Window platform:o version XP and 7o NS2 version: 2.35o Cygwin1.7.1o gcc version 4.3.4

Ubuntu platform:o version 8.04o NS2 version 2.33

and 2.34o gcc version 4.2.4


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Ubuntu: please see my previous posthttp://

www.ns2ultimate.com/post/439346614/working-combination-ns-2-34-ubuntu-8-04-and-perhaps Windows Use cygwin

◦ Required package:

gcc4, gcc4-g++, gawk, tar, gzip, make, patch, perl, w32api

◦ Graphic package:

xorg-server, xinit, libX11-devel, libXmu-devel

◦ Graphic package if required if you would like to run graphical things like nam or Xgraph. I find them unnecessary.

Step-by-Step Installation


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1. Go to cygwin.com

Installing Cygwin 1.7.1

click here to get file“setup.exe

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2. Run the file “setup.exe”


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2. Run the file “setup.exe”


Keep hitting next and provide

directory information


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3. When you hit this page, choose the required (e.g., gcc4) and optional packages


Search the package

name here

Expand package category

by clicking ‘+’

Click here to install all the

optional package

When you are done, hit ‘next’


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4. Open Cygwin

5. Download and extract ns2allinone2.35-RC3 package

5. Extract the package by calling

»tar -xvf ns-allinone-2.34-RC3.tar.gz

6. When done, call

»cd ns-allinone-2.35-RC3

»./install



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7. When the installation completes adds the followings into the file “.bashrc” located in your home directory

NSHOME=~/ns-allinone-2.35-RC3

OTCL_LIB=${NSHOME}/otcl-1.14

NS2_LIB=${NSHOME}/lib

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$OTCL_LIB:$NS2_LIB

export TCL_LIBRARY=${NSHOME}/tcl8.5.8/library

PATH=$PATH:${NSHOME}/ns-2.35:${NSHOME}/nam-1.15

Note: Look carefully at the directory you might have to change something



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8. Test whether the install is alright by typing ns

An NS command prompt % should appear on the screen, and you are done!




Acknowledgement I would like to acknowledge

tumblr.com, slideshare.net

Lupe Krops for useful discussion.

Aslinda Hassan for confirming the problem with gcc

version.

Tom Handerson and Sidney Doria for his suggestion on

ns-2.35

Chaiyut Jandang for his blog (http://

jacaranda-jandaeng.blogspot.com/2009/12/ns2-ns-234-ubuntu-904.html

) in Thai language

Sucha Supittayapornpong for introducing

Slideshare.com (http://suchaxplore.blogspot.com/).

http://jacaranda-jandaeng.blogspot.com/2009/12/ns2-ns-234-ubuntu-904.html





For more information about NS 2

Please see this book from Springer

T. Issaraiyakul and E. Hossain, “Introduction to Network Simulator NS2”, Springer 2009

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