[Ns-developers] VirtualNetDevice (TUN/TAP)

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 18:08 +0100, Gustavo Carneiro wrote:
> 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 :-)

I think that it is in everyone's best interest to merge all the code we
can provided it does not impact the core or existing code (which is
likely to be the case for a new NetDevice subclass). If you can post it
here for a first review before porting it to ns-3-dev, I could try to
review it next week.

regards,
Mathieu