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// Author: George F. Riley<riley@ece.gatech.edu>

//

// NS3 - Layer 4 Protocol base class

// George F. Riley, Georgia Tech, Spring 2007

#ifndef IPV4_L4_PROTOCOL_H

#define IPV4_L4_PROTOCOL_H

#include "ns3/object.h"

#include "ipv4-interface.h"

namespace ns3 {

class Packet;

class Ipv4Address;

/**

 * \brief L4 Protocol abstract base class 

 *

 * This is an abstract base class for layer four protocols which use IPv4 as

 * the network layer.

 */  

class Ipv4L4Protocol : public Object

{

public:

  static TypeId GetTypeId (void);

  virtual ~Ipv4L4Protocol ();

  /**

   * \returns the protocol number of this protocol.

   */

  virtual int GetProtocolNumber (void) const = 0;

  /**

   * \param p packet to forward up

   * \param source source address of packet received

   * \param destination address of packet received

   * \param incomingInterface the Ipv4Interface on which the packet arrived

   * 

   * Called from lower-level layers to send the packet up

   * in the stack. 

   */

  virtual void Receive(Ptr<Packet> p, 

                       Ipv4Address const &source,

                       Ipv4Address const &destination,

                       Ptr<Ipv4Interface> incomingInterface) = 0;

};

} // Namespace ns3

#endif