[Ns-developers] release update

[Gustavo Carneiro]

2009/5/23 Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage at sophia.inria.fr>

> hi,
>
> It's been a while, and we are getting closer to our original target
> release date of june 15th.
>
> Tom, Craig, and I had a phone conversation on wednesday to talk about
> the status of the ipv4 rework. Tom plans to merge his ns-3-ip-routing
> tree in ns-3-dev on monday. This tree appears to contain the crux of the
> API changes we wanted with a couple of implementation issues to sort
> out. Given the tight schedule, we agreed to aim for a 2-week
> stabilization and bug fixing period after the merge, and then, to freeze
> ns-3-dev around june 15th, hence, targeting june 21st or early july for
> a final release.
>
> Current items still on the table for merging:
>  - the tag rework: maybe it can make it after ip-routing is in
>  - the virtual net device: gustavo, do you have interest in pushing
> this forward with the name change (TapNetDevice) suggested by tom ?


The name is OK with me.  I took the old code, renamed a few things, rebased
against ns-3-dev, and added a bit more documentation.  Should be ready to
merge.  The only thing missing is an example, I guess.

    http://code.nsnam.org/gjc/ns-3-tap-netdevice/

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert