Re: ipv6 plans for ns-3

> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:45:39 +0200, Sébastien Vincent
> <vincent@...> wrote:
>  
>> Hi all,
>>
>> New features:
>> - RA handler to autoconfigure address and default route;
>> - Radvd application made scratch (not reused radvd stuff from ns-3-ipv6
>> old repository);
>> - Two new examples: radvd and radvd-two-prefix. The last ones advertise
>> two prefixes in RA.
>>
>> By the way I added in Ipv6RoutingProtocol, two methods for adding
>> routes. It is needed for ICMPv6 redirect (which add a host route to
>> redirected target), and to configure the default route when receive
>> first RA's prefix: NotifyAddRoute and NotifyRemoveRoute.
>>
>>    
>
> I am not sure about the above Ipv6RoutingProtocol changes.  It seems like
> what you want to do is to get a handle on a static routing object and add a
> host route directly, but you are instead providing a notification to all
> routing protocols (as in RTM_NEWROUTE).  
>
>  
>> To summarize what is done now in
>> https://svnet.u-strasbg.fr/hg/ns-3-ipv6-2nd:
>> - IPv6 interface;
>> - IPv6 layer;
>> - IPv6 raw socket;
>> - Static IPv6 routing;
>> - ICMPv6 layer;
>> - Some ICMPv6 error messages (destination unreachable, ...);
>> - Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NS/NA, RS/RA, redirection);
>> - Ping6 application (send Echo  request);
>> - Radvd application (send RA);
>> - Examples (ping6, simple-routing-ping6, radvd, radvd-two-prefix,
>> icmpv6-redirect).
>>
>> My holidays ends by monday, as I already said I will not have much time
>> to work on ns-3 after.
>>
>> I think that we can first review current work and give feedback. And
>> maybe try to merge it before continue to work on UDP/TCP. It will be
>> great to finally enable ns-3 users to begin make IPv6 simulations with
>> ICMPv6 in next ns-3 release.
>>
>>    
>
> I've posted this repository on ns-3-reviews in case people would like to
> review it there.  Please review it by next Wed. or ask for more time; if no
> major comments, I will try to merge this later next week.
> http://codereview.appspot.com/105054
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