[Click] Dynamic use of UDPIPEncap

[Eddie Kohler]

Bart Braem wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I am having difficulties to find an easy to way to use UDPIPEncap in a dynamic 
> way. You see, I don't always have the same destination for my packets, so I 
> need to be able to quickly add a "dynamic" UDP and IP header. 
> (Most probably only the IP header but I don't want to rewrite UDP 
> encapsulation code if it already exists, tested and well)
> What solution do you use when doing UDP/IP encapsulation to dynamically 
> changing destinations? I did consider using handlers but I'm afraid of 
> concurrency problems... 
> Live reconfiguration will suffer from the same problem I guess, but I can't 
> find any real documentation on that anyway.

Hi Bart,

man DynamicUDPIPEncap for an example of this.  It sounds like you have special 
semantics in mind; why not write your own element?  You can use 
[Dynamic]UDPIPEncap as a model, of course.

Eddie



> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Bart