[Ns-developers] ns3 TCP merge candidate

[Tom Henderson]

Raj Bhattacharjea wrote:
> I've committed the diff between my tree and ns-3-dev as one changeset, and
> posted for one final review at http://code.nsnam.org/raj/ns-3-dev.  Aside
> from the files I added, the main changes to the rest of NS3 are summarized
> below.
> 
> 
>    1. The new Tcp object/factory is aggregted to the Tcp to the
>    InternetNode.
>    2. The Socket base class got a Listen() API that does nothing
>    (overridden in TcpSocket subclass).
>    3. The Socket base class has a pure virtual GetType method that
>    returns an enum SocketType (SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM, etc).
>    4. The PacketSocket and UpdSocket implement the above pure virtual in
>    the correct way.
>    5. The PacketSink app now checks for the presence of a SOCK_STREAM,
>    and appropriately calls Listen and Close.
> 
> Numbers three and four were present at some point in the past, but I can
> find no record of them being present in the ns-3-dev history, so maybe
> someone can shed some light on this.  If there are no objections to these
> changes, I'll push up to the main ns-3-dev first thing tomorrow.
> 
> 

Raj's TCP code has now been merged.  The PacketSink now has uniform 
behavior regardless of whether Tcp or Udp is called, which obviated the 
need for 3-5 above.

There are some unfinished implementation aspects but we can start to 
track them in the tracker.

- Tom