Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 00:26:47 +0000 From: Panagiotes Mousikides <paggas1@yandex.com> To: soc-status@freebsd.org Subject: GSoC status: PF testing, weeks 8-14 Message-ID: <39f22794-934d-02e0-8a77-f8d459bc8567@yandex.com>
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Hello everybody! Communication has not been so good for July and August, but here is what has happened since the last update on 2017-07-09. The pfctl tests have now been committed to FreeBSD and are part of the FreeBSD test suite. If you ever install from source and run the tests, our tests will now be part of that! A lot of work has also been put into the kernel pf tests. The approach chosen was to spin up virtual machines and run the tests there. For those of you that read the last status update, the approach followed was no. 2, using tap(4). The tests create a disk image and install a complete FreeBSD instance on it. The image is then cloned for each test for the number of virtual machines needed, with custom configuration for networking as needed. A test script is run that runs various commands on the virtual machines, according to the needs of the test. An important tool used for the tests is scapy, which exists as a binary package in FreeBSD. This tool, written in Python, is perfectly suited for generating and analyzing network traffic, and has been invaluable in implementing these tests. Have a look at our previous status updates at the soc-status@freebsd.org mailing list, as well as our FreeBSD Wiki page at https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2017/PfTesting, with links to the GitHub repository as well as the review patches. Best regards, Panagioteshome | help
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