[Click] probelm with reading output

Eddie Kohler kohler at icir.org
Mon Jul 7 21:15:59 EDT 2003


> i have successfully installed click router in the kernel mode. my problem is 
> that if i have a packet like "Print" or "IPPrint", i don't know where the 
> output is written in the proc file system. the directories containing the 
> files for the mentioned elements, do not have the output.

Print and IPPrint put their output into /var/log/messages via the kernel
logger. Try running 'dmesg'.

> also how can i make
> "ToDump" element work in the kernel mode?

You can't -- ToDump is user-level only. You may want to run tcpdump as well
as Click on the machine.

> i want to use click router in my project to stop DoS attacks. i've been 
> successfully able to capture packets from applications like webbrowsers, 
> yahoo messenger and even a mass downloader. but i haven't been able to 
> capture packets from any attack tool. why is it so?

We'll need more context.

Eddie


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