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FrontDropQueue Element Documentation
NAME
FrontDropQueue -- Click element; stores packets in drop-from-front FIFO queue
SYNOPSIS
FrontDropQueue
FrontDropQueue(CAPACITY)
Ports: 1 input, 1-2 outputs
Package: standard (core)
DESCRIPTION
Stores incoming packets in a first-in-first-out queue. Drops the head packet before inserting the incoming packet if the queue already holds CAPACITY packets. The default for CAPACITY is 1000.
ELEMENT HANDLERS
- length (read-only)
- Returns the current number of packets in the queue.
- highwater_length (read-only)
- Returns the maximum number of packets that have ever been in the queue at once.
- capacity (read/write)
- Returns or sets the queue's capacity.
- drops (read-only)
- Returns the number of packets dropped by the Queue so far. Dropped packets are emitted on output 1 if output 1 exists.
- reset_counts (write-only)
- When written, resets the
dropsandhighwater_lengthcounters.
- reset (write-only)
- When written, drops all packets in the Queue.
SEE ALSO
Queue, SimpleQueue, MixedQueue, RED
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