Network stack testing suite

Hi,

My company is building a network stack in-house to host on our
light-weight embedded systems. Depending on whom you talk with, we have
2-3 different implementations. I am looking for a way to test these
stacks (enabling communications over TCP, UDP, IP, multicast, 100 Mbps
ethernet), which is automated and thorough.

Does the linux development team use an automated test suite to function
test, stress test and abuse test the stack implementations? If anybody
could point me to an opensource/commercial tool that would be great.
I'd like to avoid labs that perform the testing, since we continuously
add new features to our product and that sort of testing would be
prohibitively expensive.

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Sincerely
Arya

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My company is building a network stack in-house to host on our
> light-weight embedded systems. Depending on whom you talk with, we have
> 2-3 different implementations. I am looking for a way to test these
> stacks (enabling communications over TCP, UDP, IP, multicast, 100 Mbps
> ethernet), which is automated and thorough.
>
> Does the linux development team use an automated test suite to function
> test, stress test and abuse test the stack implementations? If anybody
> could point me to an opensource/commercial tool that would be great.
> I'd like to avoid labs that perform the testing, since we continuously
> add new features to our product and that sort of testing would be
> prohibitively expensive.

These will get you started:

http://www.netperf.org/
http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/
http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ttcp.html
http://www.usinglinux.org/benchmarks/
http://ltp.sourceforge.net/tooltable.php

There is no "shrink wrapped" all-in-one tool suite -- not GPL or OSS,
anyway.

Google should provide some more specific, quirky, focused
test/benchmark tools than this short list of "standards".

hth,
prg

Thank you. Following the links, I've found a tool that might just
server the purpose: ISIC.

http://www.packetfactory.net/Projects/ISIC/

-- Arya