[Click] peak packet forwarding rate measurement

[Eddie Kohler]

Lan Xue wrote:
> The difficulty when involving more machines than the router machine itself
> is that: you need to make sure the sender is sending data from its cache.
> This is pretty easy to do, you can read in some large file(s) with total
> sizes smaller than the cache. Repeat this several times.
> 
> On the other side, how can you tell when the receiver would think he
> receives the data? Big difference in time exists between writing to disk
> vs not.

The sender can generate packets using a Click configuration that generates 
packets from scratch and the receiver can count packets using a Click 
configuration that drops received packets on the floor, removing all of these 
issues.

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