Bug 1819

Summary:	FlowMonitor might cause the simulation to run forever
Product:	ns-3	Reporter:	Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella>
Component:	flow-monitor	Assignee:	Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjcarneiro>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	ns-bugs
Priority:	P5
Version:	ns-3-dev
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Tommaso Pecorella 2013-12-24 10:52:37 EST

FlowMonitor relies on the presence of a "Simulator::Stop (some_time_in_the_future);"

If the user forgets this, the simulation will run forever.

The root problem is in this function:
void FlowMonitor::PeriodicCheckForLostPackets ()

This is a truly periodic function, and if nobody is stopping it... it will go on forever. And the simulation with it.