ipv4-address-helper.h

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#ifndef IPV4_ADDRESS_HELPER_H
#define IPV4_ADDRESS_HELPER_H
 
#include "ipv4-interface-container.h"
 
#include "ns3/ipv4-address.h"
#include "ns3/net-device-container.h"
 
namespace ns3
{
 
/**
 * \ingroup ipv4Helpers
 *
 * @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
     * @param network the network part
     * @param mask the address mask
     * @param base the host part to start from
     */
    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.
     */
    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();
 
    /**
     * @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();
 
    /**
     * @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 A container holding the added NetDevices
     * @see SetBase
     * @see NewNetwork
     */
    Ipv4InterfaceContainer Assign(const NetDeviceContainer& c);
 
  private:
    /**
     * \brief Returns the number of address bits (hostpart) for a given netmask
     * \param maskbits the netmask
     * \returns the number of bits in the hostpart
     */
    uint32_t NumAddressBits(uint32_t maskbits) const;
 
    uint32_t m_network; //!< network address
    uint32_t m_mask;    //!< network mask
    uint32_t m_address; //!< address
    uint32_t m_base;    //!< base address
    uint32_t m_shift;   //!< shift, equivalent to the number of bits in the hostpart
    uint32_t m_max;     //!< maximum allowed address
};
 
} // namespace ns3
 
#endif /* IPV4_ADDRESS_HELPER_H */