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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
