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/share/b/pub/ns.help
/share/b/pub/nam.help

							          Feb 24, 2006

NS Network Simulator
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  The Ns Network Simulator from the University of Southern California School 
  of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute is installed on the EECS
  Instructional Solaris SPARC systems for use by EE122.

  Users can run it on Sun SPARC computers such as cory.eecs, c199.eecs and the 
  SunRay xterminals in 199 Cory (see http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/clients for
  lists of all of our computers).

  To start the Network Simulator, type this at the UNIX command prompt:

	/share/b/bin/ns

  To start the Network Animator, type this at the UNIX command prompt:

	/share/b/bin/nam

  Input is in the form of simulation scripts written in the tcl language and 
  executed by the 'ns' Tcl interpreter.  'nam' is a tool for visualizing an
  'ns' simulation.

  'nam' has a graphical display.  If you are running it from a remote computer
  (ie, if you logged into the Instructional UNIX computer using 'ssh'), you 
  will need an XWindows manager on your computer.  For more information about 
  that, please see /share/b/pub/xwindows.help 
  
  For help, see the man pages in /share/instsww/ns-allinone-2.27-fasttcp/man, 
  with commands such as

	man -M /share/instsww/ns-allinone-2.27-fasttcp/man tclsh

  Further information:  

	http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/
	http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-documentation.html


						EECS Instructional Support
                                		378/386 Cory, 333 Soda
                                		inst@eecs.berkeley.edu