Idle
Eddie Kohler edited this page Oct 17, 2017
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Idle — Click element; discards packets
Idle
Ports: any number of inputs, any number of outputs
Processing: agnostic
Idle never pushes a packet to any output or pulls a packet from any input. Any packet it does receive by push is discarded. Idle is often used to avoid "input not connected" error messages.
Idle provides an upstream-empty notifier to inform downstream pullers that it is dormant. As a result, in the configuration
Idle -> SimpleQueue -> Discard;
the Discard element will itself go dormant. Use SimpleIdle to avoid this effect.
Generated by click-elem2man from ../elements/standard/idle.hh:7 on 2017/10/17.