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RSSHashSwitch

classifies packets by hash of contents

SYNOPSIS§

RSSHashSwitch(OFFSET, LENGTH)

Batching: Batching natively supported
Ports: 1 input, 1 or more outputs
Processing: push

DESCRIPTION§

Can have any number of outputs. Chooses the output on which to emit each packet based on a hash of the LENGTH bytes starting at OFFSET. Could be used for stochastic fair queuing.

EXAMPLES§

This element expects IP packets and chooses the output based on a hash of the IP destination address:

 RSSHashSwitch(16, 4)

SEE ALSO§

Switch, RoundRobinSwitch, StrideSwitch, RandomSwitch

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