[Click] Re: RedHat 9 kernel and CLICK

[Giovanni Tusa]

Hi Charles,
I have found the patch for kernel 2.4.20 using the Anonymous CVS Click, 
rather than Click1.3pre1 release.
See http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/click/anoncvs.html for information.

Giovanni   

----- Original Message ----- 
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:32:53 -0000
> From: "Charles J Gillan" <C.Gillan at ecit.qub.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Click] RedHat 9 kernel and CLICK
> To: <click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
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> I have just installed RedHat 9 Linux on a PC and Click release
> click-1.3pre1.tar.gz.
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> The userLevel program is running with the test configurations provided.
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> However, I cannot build the kernel version of Click. Further
> investigation reveals that 
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> the RedHat 9 kernel is based on 2.4.20. 
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> I see that Click comes with a patch for only 2.4.18 kernels.
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> Can someone explain whether userLevel will be sufficient to obtain
> enough performance
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> for a basic router configuration and or Ethernet switch configuration.
> The target environment
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> is a university research lab network with five PCs.
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> Alternatively, is a patch available for 2.4.20 or should I rebuild with
> redHat 8 which I believe to be
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> based on the 2.4.18 kernel.
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> Thanks,
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> Charles.
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> Dr. Charles J Gillan
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> The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology
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> The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland BT7 1NN, UK