Dynamic NEM creation about emane HOT 2 CLOSED

I'm not sure I totally follow your question. It is possible to build your own application that links with libemane. Your application can create NEMs based on any configuration mechanism. That is pretty much what the emane application does.

I'd start by looking at NEMBuilder and NEMManager to see how NEMs are instantiated and managed. Then take a look at Emulator and Main for the startup flow of the emulator.

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My question was more concerning does EMANE natively (without writing custom C++ code) support dynamic NEM creation/deletion? I was hoping that a protocol buffer-based API could be used to communicate with a running EMANE process. For instance, it would be neat if there were a utility in the scripts directory called emaneevent-nemcontrol or something. And this could communicate with the NemDirector in the running emane process, and direct it to create/destroy nems. Of course the protocol-buffer based protocol to create a new NEM would require all the information (mac/phy plugin names, configuration, etc) that is provided by the xml files (used when running emane via the normal command line method).

The reason I ask: I believe I heard from a co-worker that such a feature exists in the newer EMANE releases (I haven't used emane since v0.9.3 -- I'm just getting ramped back up on its capabilities), was just asking the experts before I do a deep-dive in the source.

I agree that adding this functionality to this repository would be a lot of work and could be accomplished by just using the tools provided by libemane. I will look into your suggestions and write some custom code to do what I want. Thanks!

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