Re: Test-Suite for the Partial Reliability Extension

[Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 01:23:28PM +0100, Julian Cordes wrote:
> Dear linux sctp mailing list,
> I am a master student of the Münster University of Applied Sciences
> (Germany).
> In the last months I have developed a test suite in packetdrill for the
> partial reliability extension of sctp.
> Many test cases can run the Linux and FreeBSD kernel and therefore I
> have
> found some potential problems / bugs with my test suite.
> I want to share and discuss these potential issues with you on the
> mailing list.

Hi Julian,

Thanks for coming forward with all this, much appreciated.

> 
> Because the testsuite is published on Github with a permissive license
> (bsd-style) you can get all developed tests by cloning the following
> repository with git:
> https://github.com/nplab/PR_SCTP_Testsuite.
> On Github I also have documented the test-results of the test-suite in
> README-Files.
> Please note that only the tests from the subfolder forward-tsn
> are applicable for Linux, because the tests in the other directories
> require
> support for the NR-SACK and the User Message Interleaving extension.
> 
> Please also note that you need the nplab-version of packetdrill from
> https://github.com/nplab/packetdrill
> in order to run the tests on linux. The original version of packetdrill
> from google misses SCTP support.
> 
> I will send a couple of mails, one for every potential issue that I have
> found with the test suite on kernel 4.4.0-x under ubuntu 16.04.
> All mails will contain a short description of the potential problem and
> a link to the test-case or multiple test-cases that were used to detect
> this behaviour.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Julian Cordes