Replacement for UDP. Instead of sending packets via UDP, a TCP connection is opened to a Router
(using the RouterStub client-side stub),
the IP address/port of which was given using channel properties router_host and
router_port. All outgoing traffic is sent via this TCP socket to the Router which
distributes it to all connected TUNNELs in this group. Incoming traffic received from Router will
simply be passed up the stack.
A TUNNEL layer can be used to penetrate a firewall, most firewalls allow creating TCP connections
to the outside world, however, they do not permit outside hosts to initiate a TCP connection to a host
inside the firewall. Therefore, the connection created by the inside host is reused by Router to
send traffic from an outside host to a host inside the firewall.
author: Bela Ban
loopback If true, messages sent to self are treated specially: unicast messages are
looped back immediately, multicast messages get a local copy first and -
when the real copy arrives - it will be discarded.
startUpHandler() This prevents the up-handler thread to be created, which essentially is superfluous:
messages are received from the network rather than from a layer below.
If true, messages sent to self are treated specially: unicast messages are
looped back immediately, multicast messages get a local copy first and -
when the real copy arrives - it will be discarded. Useful for Window
media (non)sense
This prevents the up-handler thread to be created, which essentially is superfluous:
messages are received from the network rather than from a layer below.
DON'T REMOVE !