[Ns-developers] VirtualNetDevice (TUN/TAP)

[Gustavo Carneiro]

Hello,

I have made a VirtualNetDevice class in NS-3.  Coupled with packet sockets,
it can be used for tunneling.  It is similar to Universal TUN/TAP devices
[1].  Actually it can be seen as functionally equivalent to both "tun" and
"tap" interfaces, since in NS-3 NetDevices receive the IP packet and L2
destination address separately but in the same method call.

If there is interest in this, I can port it to ns-3-dev (using ns-3.0.11
now) and submit for inclusion.  If there is no interest, well, nevermind
then :-)


[1] http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert