[Click] peak packet forwarding rate measurement

[Lan Xue]

Hi Eddie,

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Eddie Kohler wrote:

> If you are running a kernel configuration, the handlers are available
> in the /click filesystem.
>

Does the content under /click be refreshed for each click uninstall?


> If you are running a user level configuration, you can include a
> ControlSocket element and telnet to the router to see handler values
> (man ControlSocket).
>
> Either way, you can include a PokeHandlers element to print handler
> values periodically (man PokeHandlers).
>

PokeHandlers works fine for userlevel but it doesn't print out(to standard
output) for kernel version. ./click-install CONFIGFILE simply returns
without any output. Although, I can see the values of handlers under
/click. Did I miss something to get the periodical handler print?

Thanks,

Lan

> Eddie
>
> On Jul 29, 2004, at 1:12 PM, Lan Xue wrote:
>
> > Eddie,
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestions. Is there a way to print out the handlers
> > in a
> > real time fashion, while the router is still running? The -h option
> > only
> > allows printing out when the router is interrupted.
> >
> > Lan
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Eddie Kohler wrote:
> >
> >> Lan Xue wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I would like to measure the peak packet forwarding rate of click
> >>> router
> >>> given a certain setup. Does the router software itself provide any
> >>> functionality of doing that?
> >>
> >> The real way to measure peak forwarding rate is with multiple
> >> machines, one or
> >> more senders, a router, and one or more receivers -- then you know
> >> you are
> >> measuring exactly what you wanted.  Within Click you can use
> >> InfiniteSource/RatedSource packet generators, and Counter elements,
> >> or the
> >> various elements' count and drops handlers (ToDevice and FromDevice
> >> and
> >> PollDevice have them, for example), to get a genearl idea.
> >>
> >> Eddie
> >>
>