NS installing problems

Generally ns2 is only tested on some specific version of Unix variants (like Red Hat Linux). But after particular release of ns2 version, research people around the world may give a patch file (a script 💡 which will automatically fixes ns2 for installing it in a different variant of Unix/Linux 😀 ).

Patching a ns2 version for particular Linux variant is usually will not be a simple task 😕 . Further even after successful compilation, we may face different kinds of problems while running the simulator.

➡ If you are a beginner and having short time to complete your assignment or project, then try ns2 on a standard tested version of linux (for example, ns2.28 will install successfully on Red Hat Linux 9 without the necessity of patching. Simularly, some new version of ns2-s will work on some new linux variants without the necessity of patching – refer the ns2 home page)

➡ Finally, I don’t see any readymade patch available for centos5 for any versions of ns2.

If you are very specific about ns2.28 on centos5 then confirm it again in this thread.