usr.router

Interface FabricDeviceInterface

All Known Implementing Classes:

FabricDevice

public interface FabricDeviceInterface

A Fabric Device takes in packets from a DatagramDevice and eventually outputs them to a DatagramDevice -- the packets should eventually be sent to the outQueueHandler method of a DatagramDevice

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	addToInQueue(Datagram dg, DatagramDevice dd) Takes a datagram from a datagram device and immediately either returns true (inserted) or false (dropped)
boolean	blockingAddToInQueue(Datagram dg, DatagramDevice dd) Takes a datagram from a datagram device and returns once the datagram is inserted onto the fabric
void	start() Start the device
void	stop() Stop the device

Method Detail

start

void start()

Start the device

stop

void stop()

Stop the device

blockingAddToInQueue

boolean blockingAddToInQueue(Datagram dg,
                           DatagramDevice dd)
                             throws java.net.NoRouteToHostException

Takes a datagram from a datagram device and returns once the datagram is inserted onto the fabric

Throws:

java.net.NoRouteToHostException

addToInQueue

boolean addToInQueue(Datagram dg,
                   DatagramDevice dd)
                     throws java.net.NoRouteToHostException

Takes a datagram from a datagram device and immediately either returns true (inserted) or false (dropped)

Throws:

java.net.NoRouteToHostException