[Ns-developers] VirtualNetDevice (TUN/TAP)

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:19 +0100, Gustavo Carneiro wrote:

> http://code.nsnam.org/gjc/ns-3-virtual-netdevice/
> 
> It is very simple.  It is based on ns-3.0.11.  Incidentally it won't work on
> ns-3.0.11 due to missing bug fixes only present on ns-3-dev.
> 
> I am willing to port to ns-3-dev and add an example, if there is interest in
> inclusion in ns-3 (but I have more urgent things to do otherwise).

My first reaction is that I would have expected the packet
encapsulation to be part of the VirtualNetDevice class and to not be
delegated to the application. If I am not totally wrong, the
decapsulation at the other side of the connection also needs to be done
by a VirtualNetDevice and a matching application ? If so, it really
seems to me that supporting a VirtualChannel would make a lot of sense
because the two VirtualNetDevice (tx and rx) and indeed connected.

regards,
Mathieu