Len Gross wrote:
If I have to, I will employ some form of simulation of collisions, but that
will have to be done carefully in order to get the effect of collsions
beteen multiple stations without messing up timing.
I REALLY wanted to have the PHY handle it. Usng half duplex and some old
hubs (if I can find one) would get collisions, but the retry would create
other problems.
So, looks like "simulated" collisions will be the way to go.
BTW: I'm using Netgraph - very cool stuff.
--Len
thankyou :-)
On 10/20/07, Harti Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote:
PJ>On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:51:34PM -0700, Len Gross wrote:
PJ>>I'm doing some protocol development and it is convenient to start it
on
PJ>>Ethernet. I will need to send a packet to the Ethernet device and
only have
PJ>>it be sent once, even if there is a colision.
PJ>
PJ>I know we've still got some hubs lying around in a backroom at work
PJ>but I don't know of anything that will let you disable the retry-on-CD.
PJ>
PJ>Have you considered simulating the network at a slightly higher lever:
PJ>Use ipfw pipes or similar to simulate packet loss (either set a queue
PJ>length of 1 or probabilistically). This could be done either as a
PJ>bridge or by tunneling your protocol over IP or UDP.
Some years ago I wrote a netgraph node that connected to ethernet nodes
and simulated a wireless broadcast channel including collisions,
timevariable delay, loss and shaping. Can be done in a couple of hundreds
of lines and easily allows >100MBit/sec with gigabit ethernet. The
ethernet is just the physical transport medium for the packets and does
not take part in the emulation. All that was controlled by bsnmpd and a
remote command line tool and/or Java-GUI. Unfortunately I cannot release
this (yet) due to licensing...
harti
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