On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:03 PM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > A bit of context: David is going to implement a test in DTS > for promiscuous mode: > http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/features.html#promiscuous-mode > > 24/06/2020 18:18, David Liu: > > Hi all, > > > > From my understanding, the promiscuous mode feature will verify the > > functionality of promiscuous mode when it is on or off. > > You need to check in which condition the promiscuous mode can be enabled. > Some contexts may forbid this mode. untrusted VF? flow isolation mode? > But there is no way other than some logs to indicate these. Maybe we should add some state in port info to indicate this? > > > The plan for testing this feature is as follows: > > > > Sending over a packet to verify the ports are working properly before any > > testing. First to verify the promiscuous mode is enabled. With the > > promiscuous being enabled, send over a packet and check if the packet > will > > be received when sending it to a different destination mac address than > the > > host/card. Then disable the promiscuous mode. The packet will only be > > received if the mac address is the destination mac address. Otherwise, > the > > test case will be considered a failure. > > I assume you will test positive and negative in both on/off cases. > > > Please let me know if there is anything I need to add on or if there are > > certain cases I need to be aware of. > > Anyone else has ideas about what to test and corner cases? > > > > > Thanks, > > David Liu > > UNH Interoperability Lab > > >
