| 53 | | Next, we instruct nodehandler to assign the prototype ''test:proto:sender'' to node1-1. A prototype is similar to a function or macro in conventional programming languages and defines in this case a re-usable configuration. The prototypes are normally defined in separate files . In this case, the prototype contains instructions to install a traffic generator, but we will learn about this later. What is important here is that a prototype can define properties which allows us to customize it for the specific experiment. In this experiment, we can set the address of the sender, and various properties of the traffic generator itself, such as packet size, rate, and the protocol over which to send the traffic. |
| | 53 | Next, we instruct nodehandler to assign the prototype [http://www.orbit-lab.org/wiki/Documentation/OTG/ScriptsRepository/ProtoDefSender ''test:proto:sender''] to node1-1. A prototype is similar to a function or macro in conventional programming languages and defines in this case a re-usable configuration. The prototypes are normally defined in separate files. In this case, the prototype contains instructions to install a traffic generator, but we will learn about this later. What is important here is that a prototype can define properties which allows us to customize it for the specific experiment. In this experiment, we can set the address of the sender, and various properties of the traffic generator itself, such as packet size, rate, and the protocol over which to send the traffic. |
