Polling & Getting Packets from Linux

Eddie Kohler kohler at icir.org
Mon Mar 11 18:37:26 EST 2002


>       I think that some of the issues that I was having before with polling
> on the 82559's is due to the fact that in poll mode, packets are not
> returned by default from linux to click. That has become clear from some of
> the other email on the list. What would be the best way for pulling all
> packets that are outbound from the linux stack ? 

ToDevice is meant to do this. However, mails on this list have made it
clear that its algorithm for doing this is not working properly, and may
even be crashing people's machines when Linux sends many packets. Any help
or insight from anyone would be appreciated.

Eddie



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