libns3-dev 3.17+dfsg-1build1 / usr / include / ns3.17 / ns3 / ipv4-address-helper.h

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#ifndef IPV4_ADDRESS_HELPER_H
#define IPV4_ADDRESS_HELPER_H

#include "ns3/ipv4-address.h"
#include "ns3/net-device-container.h"
#include "ipv4-interface-container.h"

namespace ns3 {

/**
 * @brief A helper class to make life easier while doing simple IPv4 address
 * assignment in scripts.
 *
 * This class is a very simple IPv4 address generator.  You can think of it
 * as a simple local number incrementer.  It has no notion that IP addresses
 * are part of a global address space.  If you have a complicated address 
 * assignment situation you may want to look at the Ipv4AddressGenerator which
 * does recognize that IP address and network number generation is part of a
 * global problem.  Ipv4AddressHelper is a simple class to make simple problems
 * easy to handle.
 *
 * We do call into the global address generator to make sure that there are
 * no duplicate addresses generated.
 *
 * @see Ipv4AddressGenerator
 */
class Ipv4AddressHelper
{
public:
/**
 * @brief Construct a helper class to make life easier while doing simple IPv4
 * address assignment in scripts.
 */
  Ipv4AddressHelper ();

/**
 * @brief Construct a helper class to make life easier while doing simple IPv4
 * address assignment in scripts.  This version sets the base and mask
 * in the constructor
 */
  Ipv4AddressHelper (Ipv4Address network, Ipv4Mask mask, 
                     Ipv4Address base = "0.0.0.1");

/**
 * @brief Set the base network number, network mask and base address.
 *
 * The address helper allocates IP addresses based on a given network number
 * and mask combination along with an initial IP address.
 *
 * For example, if you want to use a /24 prefix with an initial network number
 * of 192.168.1 (corresponding to a mask of 255.255.255.0) and you want to 
 * start allocating IP addresses out of that network beginning at 192.168.1.3,
 * you would call 
 *
 *   SetBase ("192.168.1.0", "255.255.255.0", "0.0.0.3");
 *
 * If you don't care about the initial address it defaults to "0.0.0.1" in 
 * which case you can simply use,
 *
 *   SetBase ("192.168.1.0", "255.255.255.0");
 *
 * and the first address generated will be 192.168.1.1.
 *
 * @param network The Ipv4Address containing the initial network number to
 * use during allocation.  The bits outside the network mask are not used.
 * @param mask The Ipv4Mask containing one bits in each bit position of the 
 * network number.
 * @param base An optional Ipv4Address containing the initial address used for 
 * IP address allocation.  Will be combined (ORed) with the network number to
 * generate the first IP address.  Defaults to 0.0.0.1.
 * @returns Nothing.
 */
  void SetBase (Ipv4Address network, Ipv4Mask mask, 
                Ipv4Address base = "0.0.0.1");

/**
 * @brief Increment the network number and reset the IP address counter to 
 * the base value provided in the SetBase method.
 *
 * The address helper allocates IP addresses based on a given network number
 * and initial IP address.  In order to separate the network number and IP 
 * address parts, SetBase was given an initial network number value, a network
 * mask and an initial address base.
 *
 * This method increments the network number and resets the IP address
 * counter to the last base value used.  For example, if the network number was
 * set to 192.168.0.0 with a mask of 255.255.255.0 and a base address of
 * 0.0.0.3 in the SetBase call; a call to NewNetwork will increment the 
 * network number counter resulting in network numbers incrementing as
 * 192.168.1.0, 192.168.2.0, etc.  After each network number increment, the
 * IP address counter is reset to the initial value specified in SetBase.  In 
 * this case, that would be 0.0.0.3. so if you were to call NewAddress after
 * the increment that resulted in a network number of 192.168.2.0, the 
 * allocated addresses returned by NewAddress would be 192.168.2.3, 
 * 192.168.2.4, etc.
 *
 * @returns The value of the incremented network number that will be used in
 * following address allocations.
 * @see SetBase
 * @see NewAddress
 */
  Ipv4Address NewNetwork (void);

/**
 * @brief Increment the IP address counter used to allocate IP addresses
 *
 * The address helper allocates IP addresses based on a given network number
 * and initial IP address.  In order to separate the network number and IP 
 * address parts, SetBase was given an initial network number value, a network
 * mask and an initial address base.
 *
 * This method increments IP address counter.  A check is made to ensure that
 * the address returned will not overflow the number of bits allocated to IP
 * addresses in SetBase (the number of address bits is defined by the number
 * of mask bits that are not '1').
 *
 * For example, if the network number was set to 192.168.0.0 with a mask of 
 * 255.255.255.0 and a base address of 0.0.0.3 in SetBase, the next call to
 * NewAddress will return 192.168.1.3.  The NewAddress method 
 * has post-increment semantics.  A following NewAddress would return 
 * 192.168.0.4, etc., until the 253rd call which would assert due to an address
 * overflow.
 *
 * @returns The value of the newly allocated IP address.
 * @see SetBase
 * @see NewNetwork
 */
  Ipv4Address NewAddress (void);

/**
 * @brief Assign IP addresses to the net devices specified in the container
 * based on the current network prefix and address base.
 *
 * The address helper allocates IP addresses based on a given network number
 * and initial IP address.  In order to separate the network number and IP 
 * address parts, SetBase was given an initial value and a network mask.
 * The one bits of this mask define the prefix category from which the helper
 * will allocate new network numbers.  An initial value for the network
 * numbers was provided in the base parameter of the SetBase method in the 
 * bits corresponding to positions in the mask that were 1.  An initial value
 * for the IP address counter was also provided in the base parameter in the 
 * bits corresponding to positions in the mask that were 0.
 *
 * This method gets new addresses for each net device in the container.  For
 * each net device in the container, the helper finds the associated node and
 * looks up the Ipv4 interface corresponding to the net device.  It then sets
 * the Ipv4Address and mask in the interface to the appropriate values.  If 
 * the addresses overflow the number of bits allocated for them by the network 
 * mask in the SetBase method, the system will NS_ASSERT and halt.
 *
 * @param c The NetDeviceContainer holding the collection of net devices we
 * are asked to assign Ipv4 addresses to.
 *
 * @returns Nothing
 * @see SetBase
 * @see NewNetwork
 */
  Ipv4InterfaceContainer Assign (const NetDeviceContainer &c);

private:
  /**
   * @internal
   */
  uint32_t NumAddressBits (uint32_t maskbits) const;

  uint32_t m_network;
  uint32_t m_mask;
  uint32_t m_address;
  uint32_t m_base;
  uint32_t m_shift;
  uint32_t m_max;
};

} // namespace ns3

#endif /* IPV4_ADDRESS_HELPER_H */