[Click] hot adding elements

Eddie Kohler kohler at cs.ucla.edu
Mon Apr 3 03:11:56 EDT 2006


By the way, Koen, did you ever get hot-adding elements working?  You can do 
well over 1000 hotswaps an hour, in fact.  I would accomplish your goal below 
by generating & installing a new config file with the hotswap option.

Eddie


Koen Segers wrote:
> Is it possible to load an additional click configuration when the original 
> script gets in a certain state?
> 
> I will explain my problem a bit more:
> I'm working on a routing independent auto-addressing protocol for ad hoc 
> networks. I want to make it possible to start ANY ad hoc routing protocol (so 
> loading this click configuration) as soon as I'm sure my address is unique in 
> the network. Besides these routing elements I still need some of my 
> 'addressing'-elements to generate other addresses, so the routing 
> configuration must be loaded additional to the addressing configuration.
> 
> I want to avoid making changes to the routing configuration (or code) because 
> of the independent behavior of the addressing protocol. Is this possible?
> 
> Other idea's are, of course, also welcome.
> 
> Thanks


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