[Click] using RatedSource to send packets

[Nicholas Weaver]

On Sep 1, 2010, at 8:58 AM, theleos88 at gmail.com wrote:

> Hello,
> I have got a NetFPGA card and two of its ports are connected with two
> ports of an Intel card.
> 
> Running the SCONE, i am able to use it as a router, and I would like to
> send IP packet with a RatedSource element of the Click to the device
> eth1.
> 
> I tried to do that with a configuration consisting of a RatedSource,
> with the DATA field containing the header of an IP packet and some other
> random values, and sending the output with the ToDevice element.
> 
> The problem is that the SCONE router recognises those packets as LLC
> packets insteads of IP packet.
> 
> I don't know if I am doing the right way, because I am not expert about
> Click: my task is to generate IP packets to be sent to the device eth1,
> so that I could test the behaviour of the NetFPGA router.
> 
> I would appreciate if anyone could give some suggestions.
> Thank you.

I'd do a RatedSource -> UDPIPEncap -> EtherEncap

You probably forgot the EtherEncap part, as the NetFPGA is expecting ethernet packets and unless you add them explicitly, Click won't add the ethernet header for you.