[Click] New Click user: code pointers!

[John Bicket]

Ges [ges_george at yahoo.com] wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am new to click, so please forgive any
>mistakes/incorrect assumptions i make about Click! :)
>
>The click architecture seems very suitable to develop
>something like a MAC layer that can be utilised in
>software radios. The push, pull mechanism and element
>linking (like a graph) looks good for a software
>radio. 
>
>Can someone point me to code that deals with the basic
>working of Click (the click scheduler processing of
>packets element by element), the push/pull mechanisms
>etc.

There are two really good references for learning the details 
of click:
1. Eddie's thesis:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/click:kohler-phd/thesis.pdf
2. The click programming manual: 
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/click/doc/progman.html

>
>Also, I might need to write a separate packet class
>(something that matches an 802.11 frame). Can someone
>tell me how I could go about doing that in a way that
>would fit into Click?

Look at elements/wifi/wifiencap.cc

>
>thanks for the help
>
>-Gesly
>
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