Bjoern, Thanks very much for tracking down and fixing this regression.
When I originally worked on tcp-md5 around 4 years ago, I didn't have the luxury of fast enough machines to run VMs, and open source VMs were considerably less mature.
One idea that's occurred to me, working on my current project, is to be able to run FreeBSD in a virtual machine type emulator (such as QEMU or Bochs) as part of a battery of regression tests.
This has the advantage that no invasive changes are needed to regression test the networking code, other than customising the kernel config for the tests, and hooking up the appropriate software 'test probes' to the kernel under test.
It has the disadvantage that some form of temporary store for the root filesystem needs to be presented to the kernel under test. I guess this could be dealt with by using some kind of NFS server -- again, this also has the disadvantage that it goes through the networking code, so being able to slap together a very minimal root fs image file would be useful here.
Thanks again... BMS _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
