Re: Alternate to Ixia's ANVL test harness for tcp compliance.

[jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>]

On Thu, 2006-20-07 at 12:49 -0700, Piet Delaney wrote:
> 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?
> 

Talk to the USAGI folks. They have something similar to ANVL called TAHI
that they use to check compliance in IPV4, IPV6 and IPSEC. It should be
extendable with some effort to do TCP.

> 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.

Create competition for them  - it is the easiest way to get them
motivated.


cheers,
jamal