On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:00:38 -0800
Ed Swierk wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Stephen Hemminger
> wrote:
> > Why not add to netdevsim rather than cluttering up a normal driver
> > with test support. We just pulled a bunch of test stuff out of dummy
> > for the same reason.
>
> My t
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Ed Swierk wrote:
> Most physical Ethernet devices pad short packets to the minimum length
> of 64 bytes (including FCS) on transmit. It can be useful to simulate
> this behavior when debugging a problem that results from it (such as
> incorrect L4 checksum calculat
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Stephen Hemminger
wrote:
> Why not add to netdevsim rather than cluttering up a normal driver
> with test support. We just pulled a bunch of test stuff out of dummy
> for the same reason.
My test setup to trigger an openvswitch conntrack issue
(https://marc.info
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:18:17 -0200
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:32:46AM -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-12-12 at 08:13 -0800, Ed Swierk wrote:
> > > Most physical Ethernet devices pad short packets to the minimum
> > > length
> > > of 64 bytes (includi
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:32:46AM -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-12-12 at 08:13 -0800, Ed Swierk wrote:
> > Most physical Ethernet devices pad short packets to the minimum
> > length
> > of 64 bytes (including FCS) on transmit. It can be useful to simulate
> > this behavior when debuggi
On Tue, 2017-12-12 at 08:13 -0800, Ed Swierk wrote:
> Most physical Ethernet devices pad short packets to the minimum
> length
> of 64 bytes (including FCS) on transmit. It can be useful to simulate
> this behavior when debugging a problem that results from it (such as
> incorrect L4 checksum calcu
Most physical Ethernet devices pad short packets to the minimum length
of 64 bytes (including FCS) on transmit. It can be useful to simulate
this behavior when debugging a problem that results from it (such as
incorrect L4 checksum calculation).
Padding is unnecessary for most applications so leav
