[Ns-developers] VirtualNetDevice (TUN/TAP)

[Tom Henderson]

Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> 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.

Yes, please post it, I think it will be useful.

Tom