Is there any kind of test suite (automated or list of tests) available
for testing Linux network drivers? I'm completing the addition of a few
new USB ethernet devices and would like to able to test all possible
scenarios instead of coming across them piece-meal in the future. I'm
not a big fan of the "works on my box" testing that I'm doing now. I'm
sure there are all kinds of things that I'm not testing that aren't
everyday types of things such as VLANs, multicasting, various
ethtool/mii-tool things, large packets, etc.
If there isn't anything like this, maybe it would be a useful thing to
develop? At a minimum, maybe to set the treshhold for minimum features
that drivers support and the like.
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David Hollis [off-list ref]
David Hollis wrote:
Is there any kind of test suite (automated or list of tests) available
for testing Linux network drivers? I'm completing the addition of a few
No, but I would love to someone to write one!!!
Jeff (in a rare case of multi-exclamation-point use)
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 17:10 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
David Hollis wrote:
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Is there any kind of test suite (automated or list of tests) available
for testing Linux network drivers? I'm completing the addition of a few
No, but I would love to someone to write one!!!
Jeff (in a rare case of multi-exclamation-point use)
What kinds of things do you think should be tested? What I can think of
in no particular order and certainly not complete:
Simple, standard ping remote host
pings with various crazy large packet sizes
mii-tool
ethtool, all of the various options. Not all need to be supported
certainly, but there is a set of basic ones that really should be
Changing MTU to various sizes
Configuring VLANs and being able to send/recv traffic
What other types of things should be tested?
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David Hollis [off-list ref]