[uml-devel] Re: What to do with uml_switch?

[Michael Richardson <mcr@marajade.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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>>>>> "Blaisorblade" == Blaisorblade  <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> writes:
    Blaisorblade> Michael, could you start posting it here, instead that
    Blaisorblade> to Jeff (maybe you did and I didn't notice, if it was
    Blaisorblade> time ago, but now it's the moment to repost it).

  I can repost it if you like. 
  Give me a day to find my patches again.

  uml_netjig is a tool which does the following:
  
  1) moves packets using "daemon" mode a la uml_switch.
  2) has an expect-friendly command line interface 
  3) can create *multiple* switches and keep them seperate
  4) can record all packets to a .pcap file
  5) can play packets from a .pcap file at a given rate 
     (or under command line interface control)
  6) can optionally answer ARP queries for imaginary nodes.
  7) can talk to tuntap device(s) as uml_switch could.

  My patches refactor uml_switch to get uml_netjig + uml_switch'

    Blaisorblade> Felix, even if your newer code is not yet
    Blaisorblade> "releasable", it can help anyway... even just
    Blaisorblade> describing the changes you did and why... design ideas
    Blaisorblade> are more important than code itself sometimes.

  Please tell me what your code does...

    Blaisorblade> Steve, merging at least the earlier of your patches
    Blaisorblade> (they are splitup The Right Way(tm)) might be done
    Blaisorblade> soon, without lots of discussions.

  I have a lot of refactoring patches.
  I am willing to spend the time getting consensus among people who
have done other things, and integrating their patches with mine.

  See http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/SSW/freeswan/fsumltesting/
for an OLS paper on how uml_netjig was (and continues to be) used.
  We invoke about 170 tests every night on the Openswan code base.
some use as many as 7 UMLs connected via uml_netjig to get the job
done. 

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