[Click] Write handler problem

[Marco Wenzel]

Hi Daniel,

thank you very much for that suggestion. I know, how to use such a configuration
element and this approach should work very fine :)

Regards,
Marco.

Zitat von Daniel Henkel <henk at gmx.com>:
> Marco,
>
> one possible solution would be to introduce a central
> information/configuration element which gets queried by all ICMP
> advertisers. You would only change the parameter once in that element
> and all others get notified of the change or query in a set interval.
> One example is given in elements/analysis/aggregateipflows.hh, and
> related elements like ToIPFlowDumps (elements/analysis). (There was an
> email by Eddie on this subject some time ago.)
>
> Cheers,
> - Daniel.
>
> -------
> Thursday, December 6, 2007, 8:05:38 AM, you wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > while implementing an element for ICMP router discovery (RFC 1256), I added
> a
> > write handler to configure the advertisement-interval at runtime. This
> interval
> > is the time between sending advertisement-messages on multiple interfaces
> of my
> > router. I've got one advertisement element for each interface, eg:
> ICMPAdvert(eth0) ->> ToDevice(eth0);
> ICMPAdvert(eth1) ->> ToDevice(eth1);
> ICMPAdvert(eth2) ->> ToDevice(eth2);
> > and so on... (simpified version)
>
> > I want to use the handler to configure the interval globally for every
> element
> > at one time. Is this possible? At the moment I have to enter a command for
> > every element, eg:
> > # write ICMPAdvert at 1.interval 500
> > # write ICMPAdvert at 2.interval 500
> > # write ICMPAdvert at 3.interval 500
>
> > While writing a GUI for my router, it would be easier to me, to do
> > # write ICMPAdvert@*.interval 500
> > or something like this. Any ideas?
>
> > Thanks and best regards,
> > Marco.

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Technische Universität Ilmenau
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