Re: Packet Assert Proposal

[Jiri Pirko]

Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 04:14:46PM CEST, rpazdera(a)redhat.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did a series of tests for LNST lately where I needed to check
> whether packets
> with some properties left or arrived to some interface. The usual way
> of doing
> this is to run tcpdump with some filter, grep the results for the required
> properties and see if you get something.
>
> I thought it might be useful to be able to do this natively in LNST.
> Maybe crate
> new command type like this:
>
> <command type="packet_assert" timeout="10" bg_id="5">
> <option name="interface" value="192.168.1.100" />
> <option name="filter" value="igmp" />
> <option name="grep_for" value="igmp query v{$igmp_version}" />
> <option name="grep_for" value="> {$multiaddr}" />
> <option name="min_count" value="5" />
> </command>
>
> Do you think it's a good idea or should I do it some other way/not do
> things like
> this at all?
>
> We could discuss it together with the previous sysctl proposal if
> you're interested. 
Hi Radek.

I like both your proposals. Sure we can meet up and discuss it further.
Catch me up on IRC and we can settle time and place.

Jirka

> Thank you,
> Radek Pazdera
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