[Ns-developers] Requesting help for csma promiscuous mode

[Tom Henderson]

Gustavo Carneiro wrote:

> 
> I am _all_ for a separate promiscuous mode callback.  Please, you and 
> Tom decide if that is what you definitely want and I'll code it.
> 
> I am OK with:
> 
>   1- Separate promiscuous receive callback, with or without "promiscuous 
> mode" (though I don't see the point of it);
> 
>   2- Single receive callback, but always in promiscuous mode and 
> PacketType to make filtering easy;
> 
> I strongly advise against:
> 
>   3- Single receive callback _and_ promiscuous mode on/off switch.
> 
> In either case, a quick final decision about this would be greatly 
> appreciated.  If deciding for 1, please also advise on whether full 
> backward API compatibility is desired or not.
> 

Gustavo, sorry about the unclear decision process on this one.  This 
should be decided ideally by the src/node module maintainer, but that 
position is vacant at the moment.  I'd like to update the maintainers 
list soon to cover the whole codebase.  For now, I'd like to delegate 
this one to Craig.

- Tom