Polling & Getting Packets from Linux

[Pramod John]

Thx, for the docs.  I am going to take a look at this, but I probably don' t
know enough about the interactions to be dangerous :)

Pramod

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eddie Kohler" <kohler at icir.org>
To: "Pramod John" <pramod at oration.com>
Cc: <click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: Polling & Getting Packets from Linux


> >       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
>