[Click] dynamic reconfiguration

[Hamza]

Thanks Beel,

I also want to know if different configuration files can run under one main
configuration file so that a configuration files runs when a particular
condition is met in the main configuration file like switch case statement?


On 8/29/06, Koen Beel <koen.beel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Hamza,
>
> You can specify configuration parameters via a configuration string in
> your click config file.
> e.g.  FromDevice(eth0, PROMISC true)
> If you write your own elements check for example the source of
> FromDevice to see how to parse the configuration string. (method int
> configure(Vector<String>, ErrorHandler))
> [CLICKDIR/elements/linuxmodule/fromdevice.cc]
>
> And if you want to reconfigure elements at runtime, you can use the
> proclikefs in kernel mode. e.g. element Queue
> http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/click/elements/queue
> This element has some handlers, some read-only, some read/write. If
> you want to know the queue length just read (cat) 'length'. If you
> want to set its capacity, write to 'capacity'.
>
> Check section 'userdriver', 'linuxmodule' and 'language' at
> http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/click/docs for more info.
>
> Also:
> -http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/click/doxygen/annotated.html
> -http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/click/doc/progman.html (not complete but
> usefull)
> -search the click archives using google e.g. 'configuration
> site:https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/pipermail/click/'
> -http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/click/faq
>
> On 8/29/06, Hamza <hamzamalik at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are quite new in Click architecture and are trying to implement a
> user
> > level protocol .
> > Can we reconfigure the protocol engine on run time? i.e we want our
> protocol
> > to run dynamically without any hard coded information e.g addresses etc.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Hamza
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