On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:50:49PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> The tcng project has two parts: tcng and tcsim. Right now, tcsim is not
> included in the package, which means that half the functionality of the
> package is ununsable. This is really annoying -- please enable and
> install tcsim.
Alas, tcsim (and the "C" kernel module target of tcng) are tightly tied to
internal structures of 2.4 kernel. Unlike other network simulators, tcsim
takes a chunk of the kernel (netfilter and related parts), heavily modifies
that and runs under its control. While exact, this approach is pretty
fragile and understandably breaks when the kernel changes a lot.
Unfortunately, no one bothered to port tcsim to 2.6 kernels yet, and it's a
sizeable piece of work. The last upstream release happened in 2004.
It could be possible to copy the relevant parts of 2.4 kernel and ancient
iproute2, long since removed from Debian, to get tcsim working, yet I'm not
sure if that's a good idea.
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