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DiscardNoFreeBuffer

drops all packets, but does not free their buffers. The packet descriptor (Packet object) is recycled though.

SYNOPSIS§

DiscardNoFreeBuffer

Batching: Batching natively supported
Ports: 1 input, no outputs
Processing: agnostic

DESCRIPTION§

Discards all packets received on its single input, but does not free their buffer. Only useful for benchmarking or in combination to DPDK and Replay (with QUICK_CLONE) for packet generator.

Generated by click-elem2man from ../elements/standard/discardnofreebuffer.hh:7 on 2026/11/02.