[Click] background processing?

[Bart Braem]

On Thursday 25 January 2007 21:48, Roman Chertov wrote:
> Nicholas Murphy wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply.  In a nutshell, here's what I want to do: I'm  
> > including cryptographic signatures in every packet.  I want those  
> > signatures to be verified _eventually_, but I don't want verification  
> > to happen synchronously with packet reception.  I just want it to be  
> > a background process that grabs spare cpu cycles.  Unfortunately, I  
> > don't think co-operative multitasking is quite what I want here as I  
> > don't want the verification code, which is potentially long-running,  
> > to interfere with packet processing.
>
> Store the packets on disk, in a circular/linear type buffer and then
> analyze them at your own leisure time.  I've made a post a while ago
> with the code for device drivers which allow you to do just that.

Or pass them to a second, separate Click instance that runs on a dedicated 
tun/tap device. Then you can buffer packets in Queue elements there like in 
any other Click configuration...

Bart
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