[Ns-developers] [ns3] socket API

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 20:56 +0000, Tom Henderson wrote:

> >I agree that it is an implementation issue for our TCP
> implementation,
> >but, what will happen when we try to wrap the linux TCP
> implementation ?
> >How are we going to track the application tags from within the socket
> >implementation ? It would be nice if we could come up with a plan to
> >address that issue: I can't think of any simple way to do this
> offhand
> >though.
> 
> We could say that packet tags are best effort data; we will have
> similar issues when we run in emulation mode.

Yes, but that is a bit too easy: I wonder if it is possible to have a
realistic plan to extend that best-effort to some useful cases in
emulation and linux-kernel integration.

Mathieu