[Click] How to establish a TCP connection and generate TCP flows

[Manel.Bourguiba at lip6.fr]

Thanks for your answers.
I had a look at the thesis that proposed TCPSpeaker. It seems  
interesting to use this element. But the only example given is in the  
case of a proxy. My need is much simpler: two hosts: one source and  
one sink communicating with TCP.
So how to generate the flow in the source and send it to the sink?  
let's say with RatedSource, can I have (in the source) roughly  
something like :
RatedSource (...) -> [0]TCPSpeaker
TCPSpeaker[0] -> ToDevice(eth0)
FromDevice (eth0) -> [1]TCPSpeaker
TCPSpeaker[1] -> ToDevice(eth0)

Actually, I didn't understand the utility of having two output and two  
inmput ports.

Any suggestion would help.

Quoting Harald Schioeberg <harald at net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>:

> Hi Manel,
>
> If you want native TCP connections from within click, there is still the
> TCPSpeaker element, which we once presented on the SyClick Workshop.
>
> The sources are in here:
> git git://bowl.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/click.git
>
> and the slides and presentation videos from that workshop are also
> online
> http://www.syclick.ua.ac.be/
>
> It works well in our test-cases, but was not yet used in real world, and
> I expect some hickups.
>
> Harald
>
>
> On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 14:40 -0500, Ian Rose wrote:
>> I'm not 100% clear what you are trying to do - perhaps the Socket
>> element will help?  It lets you set up network connections between hosts
>> for transferring packets between them.
>> http://read.cs.ucla.edu/click/elements/socket
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/22/2010 10:15 AM, Manel.Bourguiba at lip6.fr wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I am trying to establish a TCP connection between Host1 and Host2, and
>> > then generate a TCP flow from
>> > Host1 to Host2. I had a look at the available Click elements dealing
>> > with TCP, but couldn't find any
>> > example. I would be grateful if anybody could provide me minimal
>> > config files for the two hosts.
>> > Should I use TCPConn? if so, how?
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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