From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hollis Subject: Re: Network driver test suite? Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:43:41 -0500 Message-ID: <1105019021.5804.4.camel@dhollis-lnx.centricconsulting.com> References: <1104956386.3877.58.camel@dhollis-lnx.centricconsulting.com> <41DC65DB.1010907@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-QyYPyklJnchyC1iCRJ3z" Return-path: To: Netdev In-Reply-To: <41DC65DB.1010907@pobox.com> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-QyYPyklJnchyC1iCRJ3z Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 17:10 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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 fe= w >=20 >=20 > No, but I would love to someone to write one!!! >=20 > Jeff (in a rare case of multi-exclamation-point use) >=20 >=20 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? --=20 David Hollis --=-QyYPyklJnchyC1iCRJ3z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBB3UCNxasLqOyGHncRAu8rAJ4gFIGclJq0vyTZ3e3aSlVK1YF2twCfXX2O Is9ZfiSaVj2z4WfvHjlXWlk= =wvIS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-QyYPyklJnchyC1iCRJ3z--