Implements an interface that corresponds to a real interface on the host running the simulation. Suitable for hardware-in-the-loop simulations.

Requires cSocketRTScheduler to be configured as scheduler in omnetpp.ini.

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Parameters

Name	Type	Default value	Description
interfaceTableModule	string		The path to the InterfaceTable module
filterString	string
device	string
mtu	int	1500B

Gates

Name	Direction	Size	Description
upperLayerIn	input
upperLayerOut	output

Source code

//
// Implements an interface that corresponds to a real interface
// on the host running the simulation. Suitable for hardware-in-the-loop
// simulations.
// 
// Requires cSocketRTScheduler to be configured as scheduler in omnetpp.ini.
//
simple ExtInterface like IExternalNic
{
    parameters:
        string interfaceTableModule;   // The path to the InterfaceTable module
        string filterString;
        string device;
        int mtu @unit("B") = default(1500B);
    gates:
        input upperLayerIn;
        output upperLayerOut;
}

File: src/inet/linklayer/ext/ExtInterface.ned

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