[Ns-developers] creating MAC-level multicast addresses (was: ns-3.5 planning / mac multicast)

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 11:27 +0200, Fabian Mauchle wrote:

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> - If I wanted (hypothetically) to create a new L3 protocol, I would have to
> make changes to the NetDevice interface, and subsequently to all
> implementations.

The current API has been designed to make it easy to add new layer2/1
devices with weird addresses rather than make it easy to add a wholly
different layer 3. The current underwater models from leonard are a
great example of what we set out to encourage.

Mathieu