[Click] Queue drops

[Eddie Kohler]

Hi Robert,

All Queue elements in current git should have the optional second output!

Eddie


Robert Ross wrote:
> I've made an attempt at updating all the queue elements to output drops
> on a secondary push port.  This seemed to work in userlevel, but caused
> immediate kernel panics when running as a linuxmodule.  I'm still very
> new to Click development.  Is this something you can add easily?  Seems
> to me being able to "trap" dropped packets would be a very useful
> feature.  In our particular situation, we want to send these packets to
> a PCAP dump file for further analysis.
> 
> Robert Ross
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eddie Kohler [mailto:kohler at cs.ucla.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 6:29 PM
> To: Robert Ross
> Cc: click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [Click] Queue drops
> 
> There isn't a specific reason.  Would it be useful for you?
> 
> Eddie
> 
> 
> Robert Ross wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, is there a specific reason why queue elements
> do not have a secondary push output for dropped packets?  Most other
> elements that drop packets will push them out a secondary port if
> available.
>>  
>> Robert A. Ross
>> DSCI Inc.
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