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

// NS3 - Layer 3 Protocol base class
// George F. Riley, Georgia Tech, Spring 2007

#ifndef L3_PROTOCOL_H
#define L3_PROTOCOL_H

namespace ns3 {

class Packet;
class NetDevice;
class Node;


/**
 * ::Send is always defined in subclasses.
 */
class L3Protocol {
public:
  L3Protocol(int protocolNumber, int version);
  virtual ~L3Protocol ();
    
  int GetProtocolNumber (void) const;
  int GetVersion() const;

  virtual L3Protocol* Copy(Node *node) const = 0;
  /**
   * Lower layer calls this method after calling L3Demux::Lookup
   * The ARP subclass needs to know from which NetDevice this
   * packet is coming to:
   *    - implement a per-NetDevice ARP cache
   *    - send back arp replies on the right device
   */
  virtual void Receive(Packet& p, NetDevice &device) = 0;

 private:
  int m_protocolNumber;
  int m_version;
};

} // Namespace ns3

#endif