[Ns-developers] ns-3 IPv4 issues and plan

[Tom Henderson]

Some of you may have noticed the following in our ns-3.1 release notes:

   The IPv4 API defined in src/node/ipv4.h is expected to
   undergo major changes in preparation of the merge of the
   IPv6 API and implementation.

I have put together a summary of the known issues on this wiki page and 
would like to prioritize resolving them all prior to the ns-3.2 release:

http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/IPv4_cleanup

My next steps are to look more carefully at the IPv4Interface issue for 
multihoming, and to look at Click and XORP for hints as to how to design 
a more flexible hierarchical routing approach.  This work also has 
dependencies on Sebastien and the IPv6 team, and their work on 
integrating IPv6, and also may impact Florian's cradle code, so we will 
have to consider the related impacts and coordinate merging and testing.

Tom