ipv6-address-helper.h

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 * Author: Sebastien Vincent <vincent@clarinet.u-strasbg.fr>
 * modified by Tom Henderson for ns-3.14 release
 */
 
#ifndef IPV6_ADDRESS_HELPER_H
#define IPV6_ADDRESS_HELPER_H
 
#include "ipv6-interface-container.h"
 
#include "ns3/ipv6-address.h"
#include "ns3/net-device-container.h"
 
#include <vector>
 
namespace ns3
{
 
/**
 * \ingroup ipv6Helpers
 *
 * \brief Helper class to auto-assign global IPv6 unicast addresses
 *
 * Assign global unicast IPv6 addresses based on \RFC{4291} definition.
 *
 *   |         n bits          | 64-n bits |       64 bits              |
 *   +-------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+
 *   | global routing prefix   | subnet ID |       interface ID         |
 *   +-------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+
 *   <-------------network---------------->
 *
 *   11111111111111111111111111000000000000
 *   <---prefix of length n--->
 *
 * This class handles the following quantities.
 * 1) The "network" which covers the 64 bit union of the global routing
 *    prefix and the subnet ID
 * 2) the "prefix" length "n" which demarcates the global routing prefix
 *    and the subnet ID
 * 3) the "base" which is the initial 64-bit interface ID.
 *
 * The names "network", "prefix" and "base" are chosen to be consistent
 * with a similar address helper for IPv4.
 *
 * This helper class allows users to set or reset the network and
 * interface components, and call "NewAddress ()" to sequentially increment
 * the interface ID, and call "NewNetwork ()" to allocate a new subnet
 * (until the subnet ID quantity rolls over).  A call to NewNetwork ()
 * that causes the subnet ID to roll over will trigger an assertion.
 *
 * By default, the prefix is 32 bits and the network is '2001:db8::/32'
 * (\RFC{5156} section 2.6 Documentation prefix).  The prefix may range
 * from length 0 to 64, with the value 64 having a special meaning that
 * no subnet ID boundary is enforced (equivalent to value 0).
 *
 * There are two variants of interface ID supported (\RFC{4291}, Sec. 2.5.1)
 * The default is a "local" scope, but a "universal" scoped ID may be
 * formed by calling "NewAddress (Address addr)" with a 48-bit MAC address.
 * If this method is called, the addressed returned will include a
 * modified EUI-64-format identifier created from the MAC address as
 * specified in \RFC{4291}.
 *
 * BEWARE: the underlying implementation acts as a Singleton.
 * In other terms, two different instances of Ipv6AddressHelper will
 * pick IPv6 numbers from the same pool. Changing the network in one of them
 * will also change the network in the other instances.
 */
class Ipv6AddressHelper
{
  public:
    /**
     * \brief Constructor.
     */
    Ipv6AddressHelper();
 
    /**
     * \brief Constructor.
     * \param network The IPv6 network
     * \param prefix The prefix
     * \param base The base interface ID
     */
    Ipv6AddressHelper(Ipv6Address network,
                      Ipv6Prefix prefix,
                      Ipv6Address base = Ipv6Address("::1"));
 
    /**
     * \brief Set the base network number, network prefix, and base interface ID
     *
     * \param network The IPv6 network
     * \param prefix The prefix
     * \param base The base interface ID
     */
    void SetBase(Ipv6Address network, Ipv6Prefix prefix, Ipv6Address base = Ipv6Address("::1"));
 
    /**
     * \brief Allocate a new network.
     *
     * This method will cause the subnet prefix to increment, for future
     * network IDs, and resets the interface ID to the previously used
     * base.
     */
    void NewNetwork();
 
    /**
     * \brief Allocate a new Ipv6Address.
     *
     * If a Mac48Address is passed in, an Ipv6 autoconfigured address
     * according to the current subnet prefix is returned.  If something
     * other than Mac48 address is passed in, the program will terminate.
     *
     * \param addr address used to generate the interface ID of the IPv6 address
     * \return newly created Ipv6Address
     */
    Ipv6Address NewAddress(Address addr);
 
    /**
     * \brief Allocate a new Ipv6Address with interface ID equal to the
     * next one in the underlying generator.
     *
     * \return newly created Ipv6Address
     */
    Ipv6Address NewAddress();
 
    /**
     * \brief Allocate an Ipv6InterfaceContainer with auto-assigned addresses.
     * \param c netdevice container
     * \return newly created Ipv6InterfaceContainer
     */
    Ipv6InterfaceContainer Assign(const NetDeviceContainer& c);
 
    /**
     * \brief Allocate an Ipv6InterfaceContainer, and control whether the
     *        interfaces have addresses auto-assigned to them
     *
     * \param c netdevice container
     * \param withConfiguration a vector of values for which, for a
     *        given device, true : interface automatically addressed,
     *        false : no automatic address
     * \return newly created Ipv6InterfaceContainer
     */
    Ipv6InterfaceContainer Assign(const NetDeviceContainer& c, std::vector<bool> withConfiguration);
 
    /**
     * \brief Allocate an Ipv6InterfaceContainer, and control whether the
     *        interfaces have addresses auto-assigned to them
     *
     * \param c netdevice container
     * \param withConfiguration a vector of values for which, for a
     *        given device, true : interface automatically addressed,
     *        false : no automatic address
     * \param onLink a vector of values for which, for a
     *        given device, true : on-link property added,
     *        false : network is not on-link
     *        Meaningful only if the address is automatically assigned.
     * \return newly created Ipv6InterfaceContainer
     */
    Ipv6InterfaceContainer Assign(const NetDeviceContainer& c,
                                  std::vector<bool> withConfiguration,
                                  std::vector<bool> onLink);
 
    /**
     * \brief Allocate an Ipv6InterfaceContainer but do not assign any IPv6 addresses
     *
     * This method is used when IPv6 address assignment may occur later
     * (such as dynamic address assignment)
     *
     * Equivalent to AssignWithoutAddress (c, std::vector<bool> of false);
     *
     * \param c netdevice container
     * \return newly created Ipv6InterfaceContainer
     */
    Ipv6InterfaceContainer AssignWithoutAddress(const NetDeviceContainer& c);
 
    /**
     * \brief Allocate an Ipv6InterfaceContainer with auto-assigned addresses,
     * but do not set the on-link property for the network.
     *
     * This method will assign a valid global address to the interface but
     * the routing will not consider the network as "on-link".
     *
     * \param c netdevice container
     * \return newly created Ipv6InterfaceContainer
     */
    Ipv6InterfaceContainer AssignWithoutOnLink(const NetDeviceContainer& c);
 
  private:
    Ipv6Address m_network; //!< network address
    Ipv6Prefix m_prefix;   //!< prefix length
    Ipv6Address m_address; //!< host address
    Ipv6Address m_base;    //!< host base address
};
 
} /* namespace ns3 */
 
#endif /* IPV6_ADDRESS_STATIC_H */