Re: Network Patch set V4

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:23:05PM +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 08:09:27PM +0530, pradeep wrote:
> > Hi Lucas, i covered below  tests on RHEL 5.5 , RHEL 6 guests with vhost
> > enbled.  Please find the below errors and cause for errros.
> > 
> > I also attached few other test cases can be added to out TODO list of
> > network patchset. I am working on couple of these issues.
> > 
> > 1. Nice_promisc:
> > -----------------
> > With RHEL 5.5: PASS
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> Thanks for your feedback, I will re-test them with rhel5/6 and reply the test result.
> 
> 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > We may include below tests to for Network Patch set:
> > I am working on couple of issues among below mentioned. 
> > 
> > Ping6 testing
> > 
> >     * ping6 with various message sizes guest to/from local/remote host
> >       using link-local addresses 
> >       By default IPv6 seems to be disabled  on virbr0. Enable it by
> >       doing 
> > 
> > NIC bonding test :
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Virtualization_Nic_Bonding
> 
> I have a draft patch for bonding testing, will improve and send it to mailist.
> 
> > NFS testing
> > 
> >     * create NFS server on guest, mount dir on host, copy and delete
> >       files, do reverse on host 
> > 
> > Setting and unsetting ethernet adapters.
> > 
> >        set_link name [up|down]
>  
> I only wrote a testcases, didn't automate it, could you help to review ?
> 
> Steps:
> 1. boot up a guest with virtio_nic
> 2. login guest through serial
> 3. transfer a big file from guest to host
> guest) # scp a.out $host_ip:~
> 4. put down link by monitor
> qemu) # set_link $nic_model.0 down
> 5. try to capture date by tcpdump
> host)# tcpdump port $scp_port and src $guest_ip -i $tap
> 6. put up link by monitor
> qemu) set_link $nic_model.0 down
> 7. try to capture date by tcpdump
> host)# tcpdump port $scp_port and src $guest_ip -i $tap
> 8. transfer a big file from host to guest
> host) # scp a.out $guest_ip:~


I think we should use something simpler, like ping
guest-host and host-guest at the same time.

> 9. put down link by monitor
> qemu) # set_link $nic_model.0 down
> 10. try to capture date by tcpdump
> guest)# tcpdump port $scp_port and dest $guest_ip -i eth0
> 11. put up link by monitor
> qemu) set_link $nic_model.0 down
> 12. try to capture date by tcpdump
> host)# tcpdump port $scp_port and dest $guest_ip -i eth0
> 
> Expected Results:
> 4. it should not capture nothing
> 6. it should capture some packets
> 10. it should not capture nothing
> 12. it should capture some packets