PacketDuplicator

simple module

Connects one packet producer to one packet consumer. It can be pushed with packets from the connected packet producer. When this happens, one or more copies of the packet are pushed to the output gate.

Inheritance diagram

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Used in

Name	Type	Description
DuplicatorTutorialStep	network	(no description)

Extends

Name	Type	Description
PacketDuplicatorBase	simple module	Base type for packet duplicator implementations. Provides common functionality for creating and forwarding multiple copies of incoming packets.

Parameters

Name	Type	Default value	Description
displayStringTextFormat	string	"processed %p pk (%l)"	Determines the text that is written on top of the submodule, supports displaying pars, watches, and module-specific information
numDuplicates	int	1	Number of duplicates, 0 means only the original packet is forwarded

Properties

Name	Value	Description
class	PacketDuplicator
display	i=block/star

Gates

Name	Direction	Size	Description
in	input
out	output

Source code

//
// Connects one packet producer to one packet consumer. It can be
// pushed with packets from the connected packet producer. When this happens,
// one or more copies of the packet are pushed to the output gate.
//
simple PacketDuplicator extends PacketDuplicatorBase like IPassivePacketSink, IActivePacketSource
{
    parameters:
        volatile int numDuplicates = default(1); // Number of duplicates, 0 means only the original packet is forwarded
        @class(PacketDuplicator);
        @display("i=block/star");
    gates:
        input in @labels(push);
        output out @labels(push);
}

File: src/inet/queueing/common/PacketDuplicator.ned