tcpreplay for testing network stacks

[Vijay Kumar Banerjee]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 12:41 AM Christian MAUDERER
<christian.mauderer at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Vijay,
>
> Am 27.04.21 um 18:48 schrieb Vijay Kumar Banerjee:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I came across the tcpreplay tool and it looks like a nice tool for
> > testing the network stacks. It can be used to capture network traffic
> > and then play it back, this will help with testing the network packets
> > from different network stacks.
>
> Sounds like an interesting tool.
>
> >
> > My proposal is to add the tcpreply as a host-side tool in rtems-tools
> > and use it with the network interface where the network application is
> > running. The only issue that I see with the whole idea is that the
> > tcpreplay is GPLv3 licensed. Will that be compatible for rtems-tools?
> > The github repository says that it's compatible with UNIX and Windows
> > with cygwin.
>
> The more difficult problem could be the missing Mac and FreeBSD support.
>
That's a good point.

> What would be the advantage of having tcpreply in rtems-tools? Do you
> want to use it for automated tests?
>
Yes. I was thinking about capturing the pcap format packets in
temporary files and then running tcpreplay to check for any network
issues. I haven't planned exactly how that will be implemented but
roughly this is the idea.

> Best regards
>
> Christian
>
> >
> > Source repository:https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay
> > <https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay>
> >
> > Thoughts and suggestions are much appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Vijay
> >
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