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/*

 * Copyright (c) 2007 Georgia Tech Research Corporation

 *

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as

 * published by the Free Software Foundation;

 *

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 * GNU General Public License for more details.

 *

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 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

 *

 * Author: Raj Bhattacharjea <raj.b@gatech.edu>

 */

#ifndef TCP_SOCKET_FACTORY_H

#define TCP_SOCKET_FACTORY_H

#include "ns3/socket-factory.h"

namespace ns3 {

class Socket;

/**

 * \ingroup socket

 *

 * \brief API to create TCP socket instances 

 *

 * This abstract class defines the API for TCP sockets.

 * This class also holds the global default variables used to

 * initialize newly created sockets, such as values that are

 * set through the sysctl or proc interfaces in Linux.

 * All TCP socket factory implementations must provide an implementation 

 * of CreateSocket

 * below, and should make use of the default values configured below.

 * 

 * \see TcpSocketFactoryImpl

 *

 */

class TcpSocketFactory : public SocketFactory

{

public:

  /**

   * Get the type ID.

   * \brief Get the type ID.

   * \return the object TypeId

   */

  static TypeId GetTypeId (void);

};

} // namespace ns3

#endif /* TCP_SOCKET_FACTORY_H */