Bug 1899

Summary:	feature request: add sequence number header to OnOffApplication
Product:	ns-3	Reporter:	Tom Henderson <tomh>
Component:	applications	Assignee:	George Riley <riley>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	ns-bugs, tommaso.pecorella
Priority:	P5
Version:	pre-release
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Tom Henderson 2014-04-16 12:49:10 EDT

Someone contacted me suggesting the addition of a sequence number in the OnOffApplication payload, to facilitate tracking of packets.   While tags can be used to implement this, tags are stripped when used e.g. with DCE cradle or emulation use cases.

I suggest to make this inclusion disabled by default and enabled by a new attribute.

Comment 1 Tommaso Pecorella 2014-04-16 14:32:56 EDT

I don't see any reason to not do it.

Moreover, there's no real reason to keep this feature off by default, it's just 12 bytes long.

Comment 2 Tom Henderson 2014-04-16 14:55:45 EDT

(In reply to Tommaso Pecorella from comment #1)
> I don't see any reason to not do it.
> 
> Moreover, there's no real reason to keep this feature off by default, it's
> just 12 bytes long.

I could probably be convinced but I think it needs to be looked into (any backward compatibility issues)?