[Click] LinkUnqueue not honoring latency param

Eddie Kohler kohler at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Feb 17 15:59:58 EST 2005


Trevor,

I've spent about a half hour looking at and testing the code to see if 
I can reproduce this, and I can't, at least at userlevel.

Can you please say what version of Click you're working with, and send 
an actual configuration file?

Eddie


On Feb 7, 2005, at 4:04 PM, Trevor Harrison wrote:

> I'm trying to emulate a slow link between two locations.  I've got a
> click script that sends packets thru a LinkUnqueue(0.5, 2384kbps)
> cmd.
>
> When doing a simple ping, the reply time is a rock solid 500ms, using
> win32 cmd line ping.
> However, as soon as I start transfering lots of data via that click
> path, the response time of the ping *drops* down into the 20ms range.
>
> If I use a DelayUnqueue(0.5) in place of the LinkUnqueue, the response
> time stays at atleast 500ms, if not a few more ms during traffic.
>
> I have a weird config due to my lack of hardware... packets are
> probably taking an asymetric route from the client to the host.  The
> client routes via click, but the dest host has an interface on the
> client's subnet, and probably is replying directly on that subnet.
>
> -Trevor
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