On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 4:23 PM Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khapa...@broadcom.com> wrote:
> > > 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? > > From what I know, I not sure if that is possible to add these states into the test case? But let me know what you think. > >> > 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. >> >> Yes, in the test case. It covered sending a packet with same/different destination mac address when promiscuous is on/off. > 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 >> >> >>
