From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Piet Delaney Subject: Alternate to Ixia's ANVL test harness for tcp compliance. Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:49:26 -0700 Message-ID: <1153424967.8114.450.camel@piet2.bluelane.com> Reply-To: piet@bluelane.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Piet Delaney , piet at work , Rajneesh Saini Return-path: Received: from mse2fe2.mse2.exchange.ms ([66.232.26.194]:44444 "EHLO mse2fe2.mse2.exchange.ms") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030368AbWGTTtb (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:49:31 -0400 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger , David Miller , Andi Kleen Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hey Gang: Both at UNM and Bluelane we have used Ixia's ANVL test harness for verifying TCP protocol compliance with the RFC's. Recent additions to Ixia's ANVL GUI provide a ethereal like GUI. It looks really slick; even providing ladder diagrams for quickly viewing the big picture. Unfortunately Ixia told me they don't have any plains to port the new GUI to linux. Instead they are trying to migrate Linux developers, us, to using Windows. Yeck! With Ixia migrating away from Linux I was wondering if we should consider using an alternate test bed for TCP protocol compliance. Do any of you use tools other than ANVL for RFC compliance while hacking to the tcp code? In the unlikely event that there isn't an alternate; is there any interest in a netdev group effort to motivate Ixia to porting their C sharp code to linux. I get the feeling that come of their developers would like to port the code to linux. -piet -- Piet Delaney BlueLane Teck W: (408) 200-5256; piet@bluelane.com H: (408) 243-8872; piet@piet.net