[ixp1200] Packet Generator

[Abhijeet Joglekar]

> I'll try to explain my second question.
> When I ran the simulator, I've noticed that in case that the transmit
> doesn't works ( I stop to send packets from some reason) the receive also
> stops.

What do you mean by "receive stops"? Does the simulator give an error
and stop, or the IX bus device status shows no packet been received ?

Packets should be received at the port continously, unless you have
specifically selected that packet reception should be stopped after
some "n" packets are received. Ofcourse, the ingress microcode might
drop those packets, if there arent enough buffers or if transmit is
not releasing buffers.

> I assume that in the beginning of the simulation the receiving packets are
> created by the script command, and then the transmitted packets go back as
				    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>a  received packets.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> My question is: if there is some way that the received packets won't be
> the
> transmitted packets,
> so in case I stop transmitting, the receiving continue.

The transmitted packets are not cycled back as the recieve packets, if
that is what you are asking.

For instance, you can turn off Egress completely, and in ingress code,
simply count packets and then drop them and release the buffer handle
Packet reception should still work.

-- abhijeet