6 Apr 2007 11:54
packet rejects trasmitting a group of queued packets
Guido Alejandro Gavilanes Castillo <ggavilanes <at> gmail.com>
2007-04-06 09:54:29 GMT
2007-04-06 09:54:29 GMT
Hello Click gurus, I am using click in some nodes to share some information by means of special ethernet encapsulated frames. On one node, a broadcast is generated in the form of a unicast by taking a single packet, cloning it and depending on output port on myelement, encapsulates it with different ethernet headers; however these packets go out of the node through the same interface, by means of a round robin scheduler and finally a queue as follows: myelement[0] -> Queue() -> encap1 -> [0]roundrobinsched; myelement[1] -> Queue() -> encap2 -> [1]roundrobinsched; myelement[2] -> Queue() -> encap2 -> [2]roundrobinsched; roundrobinsched -> Print(OUTPUT,40) ToDevice(eth0); then FromDevice(eth0) -> Print(INPUT,40)-> classifier(...) -> Inputs to the myelement come from other paths in my config. And Strangely I have found that when I see a packet originated on the node, it is cloned and output by all three ports of my element as expected, but I see printed (and only finally transmitted to the ethernet channel attached to eth0) only the packet encapsulated by encap1, and not the others. Then I tried changing the order of the ports, lets say, encap 1 -> [2]roundrobinsched, and encap2->[0]roundrobinsched, and this time encap2 is the only packet I see printed as OUTPUT. I run this in user level, but originally on linuxmodule, the same configuration gives the same behavior (just one packet effectively transmitted) but with a message "ToDevice eth0 rejected a packet!" after the printed OUTPUT message. Another observation is that as these messages are transmitted my configuration states that one of destination hosts responds to the previous broadcast, so I verified that response, but the packet seems to be not arriving to eth0 (I dont see it in "INPUT"). Other hosts with the same configuration (but without sending previous broadcasts) actually see the incoming packets. I tried also changing ToDevice options, such as BURST parameter, as there are 3 sources of packets for the interface, but the result changing it is the same. these are the only packets I am putting on the interface, so I am still not sure if a "full" condition is reached as a previous click mailing list suggests as the cause in https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/pipermail/click/2002-March/001126.html I would like to have some help with this, hope being clear enough explaining this problem, otherwise, please let me know and I will clarify a bit more as possible. Thank you in advance for your attention and information. Guido
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