<box begindoc>**This is automatically generated documentation.**  Edit after the "[[#COMMENTS|COMMENTS]]" heading; changes to the main body will be lost.</box>

====== Discard Element Documentation ======

===== NAME =====

**Discard** -- Click element;
drops all packets

===== SYNOPSIS =====

Discard

**Ports**: 1 input, no outputs\\ 
**Processing**: agnostic\\ 
**Package**: standard (core)\\ 

===== DESCRIPTION =====

Discards all packets received on its single input. If used in a pull context,
it initiates pulls whenever packets are available, and listens for activity
notification, such as that available from [[Queue]].


===== ELEMENT HANDLERS =====


 ? **count (read-only)**
 ! Returns the number of packets discarded.

 ? **reset_counts (write-only)**
 ! Resets "count" to 0.


===== SEE ALSO =====

[[Queue]]


Generated by 'click-elem2man' from '../elements/standard/discard.hh' on 24/May/2007.


===== COMMENTS =====