[Ns-developers] Design Review of ns-3-ipv6-1st (ns-3.3 newfeature)

[Sébastien Vincent]

Hello,

Tom Henderson wrote:
> craigdo at ee.washington.edu wrote:
>>> At this point, my main concern is that I would like to know what the
>>> plan is to deal with the ipv4 API rework under way in tom's tree.
>>
>> I agree completely.  I just spoke to Tom about this.  We agree that 
>> the approach to take is to have Tom "adopt" Sebastien's changes
>> and merge them into his IPv4 work.  This will ensure that the two 
>> feature sets work together consistently, and will allow reviewing
>> them as one consistent whole (which makes reviewer's lives easier).
>>
>> Logistically, this seems to mean that we "withdraw" the ns-3-ipv6-1st 
>> feature proposal and allow Tom and Sebastien to coordinate how
>> to merge it into the IPv4 rework feature proposal.  We will then see 
>> an IPv4, IPv6 rework feature proposal appear Real Soon Now.
>>
>
> Craig, I'm going to withdraw trying to put IPv4 routing rework into 
> ns-3.3, since there is still a lot of work to do, and it would make 
> sense to try to deal with the IPv6 at the same time.
>
> I would still be in favor of merging Sebastien's first repository on 
> Ipv6 addressing (without the routing component) for ns-3.3, and try to 
> get the routing component done for ns-3.4.

I made some small modifications to ns-3-ipv6-1st (coding style, remove 
Ipv6Route and things from Mathieu). I already change GetMulticast things 
in *-net-device (using Mac48Address::GetMulticast...). The code is also 
up-to-date with ns-3-dev.

Regards,
--
Seb

>
> Tom
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