[Click] EtherPause element

Roman Chertov rchertov at cs.ucsb.edu
Thu Oct 30 22:58:12 EDT 2008


Eddie,
    It looks good.  Much cleaner header accessing code :) I am curious 
though about using timers vs. the original method I used (based on 
FastUDPSrc).  Will the timers perform just as well as the previous pull 
(basically polling) method at high packet rates?

Roman

Eddie Kohler wrote:
> Hi Roman,
> 
> I took a look at this too.  The result is a new element EtherPauseSource 
> checked in to the repository.  This element (1) follows the ...Source 
> naming convention, (2) can be used at userlevel or linuxmodule, (3) 
> allows setting the destination Ethernet address as well as the source, 
> and (4) has simplified code.  Please take a look.  Thanks so much for 
> providing us with code!
> 
> Eddie
> 
> 
> Roman Chertov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>    I am posting an EtherPause elements that can be included in the 
>> linuxmodule repository.  It generates Ethernet pause frames and can be 
>> used for hardware based flow control.
>>
>> Roman
>>
>>
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