[cgl_discussion] Validation Team Minutes 01/15/2003

[Mika Kukkonen]

Is this the only open source (if it is) IPv6 testing suite around?
Maybe it is time to start YASFP?? (= Yet Another SourceForge Project :-)

--MiKu

On ke, 2003-01-15 at 14:54, Stephanie Glass wrote:
> 
> Ron,
> I have tried to do several things with the TAHI test suite.  It isn't quite
> as open as the site suggests.  Also,
> they are suppose to have a fully LINUX version, not just FreeBSD but it
> doesn't appear on their website.
> I still believe there is a large void.  Every time we made a suggestion on
> doing some work on the test suite
> they said they were doing the same thing already.  But I have looked out on
> their website and none of what
> we wanted to work on is listed.  That to me doesn't make it a very "open"
> project and there are definite
> missing areas of tests.
> 
> 
> 
> Stephanie
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>                       Rod Van Meter                                                                                                  
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> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 13:59, ext Lynch, Rusty wrote:
> 
> > * IPv6
> >   - There appears to large void for truly open,
> >     implementation agnostic test cases
> >     + we have an opportunity to create a new
> >       project that has very similar goals to the
> >       Open POSIX Test project, if it is important
> >       enough to the working group (i.e. lots of
> >       work will need to be done.)
> >
> 
> (Sorry I couldn't make it to the meeting, I'm trying to get some stuff
> done before I leave early tomorrow.)
> 
> http://www.tahi.org/ might disagree with there being a "large void".
> 
> They have a publically available (with source code) test suite, with
> something like 800 tests in it.  The test kit itself only runs on
> FreeBSD w/ KAME, but the device under test can be anything, I think,
> including an embedded device.
> 
> TAHI is sponsoring a v6 Interoperability Test Event next week in Chiba,
> Japan.
> 
> They haven't, AFAIK, run this against Linux 2.5, but in March last year
> it was run against USAGI.  That's why I suggested that we prod/offer
> money to them to do it against 2.5.  I don't know if they will test it
> next week or not, nor when the results will be available.
> 
> Better yet, if there are resources available and it doesn't happen next
> week, get some of our people to run these tests against 2.5.
> 
> If you think it's important, some effort could be put into making it
> self-hosting on Linux, but I don't think it's a big deal.
> 
>                          --Rod
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