<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class="">
<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 26, 2018, at 5:59 PM, John Baugh <<a href="mailto:jpbaugh@umich.edu" class="">jpbaugh@umich.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">ndnSIM friends,</span><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">When the Configs are established in a scenario, what exactly does the <span class="gmail-il">MaxPackets</span> do? Does that control the number of packets any given node can handle without dropping them?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Yes, that is correct. Take a look here:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ns-3-users/KFL0pckjEw4" class="">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ns-3-users/KFL0pckjEw4</a></div><div><a href="https://www.nsnam.org/doxygen/classns3_1_1_queue_3_01_packet_01_4.html" class="">https://www.nsnam.org/doxygen/classns3_1_1_queue_3_01_packet_01_4.html</a></div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">And, is there a rule of thumb for what that number should be? Should it equal to consumer frequency for requests, or #consumers * consumerFrequency? Etc.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I would just say that it should be large enough, so that the nodes do not drop packets, which would mess up your simulation results. Unless you would like to test whether the queue of the nodes can handle the received packets without dropping them, I would suggest that you use a large enough queue size.</div><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis</span><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">Personal Website: </span><a href="http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/" class="">http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/</a><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">Internet Research Laboratory</span><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">Computer Science Department</span><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">UCLA</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;"><br class=""></span></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>