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NIC driver test suite

Introduction

This project is for the NIC test suites development. You can download the NIC driver test suite and learn about nic driver testing from this link. Everyone's contribution and feedback is important to this project.

NICDRV Introduction

NICDRV is a testsuite developed by us for NIC drivers testing. It is used to qualify the NIC's functionalities working on Solaris and supports both SPARC and X86 platforms. We analyzed the functionalities of all kinds of NICs and refined the testing criteria.

NICDRV contains necessary network applications to verify the working of NIC drivers, including network data transmission at IPv4/IPv6, transmission at promiscuous mode, transmission based on all kinds of packet length, data corruption verifying, multicast transmission, ndd-parameters setting, working-mode testing, Statistics, vlan, link aggregation, loading/unloading drivers and etc.NICDRV also include stress testing

NICDRV is implemented based on our existing Solaris Test Framework (STF), so it can be configured and executed automatically instead of running every test case manually. Test report will also be produced automatically after the test ends.

NICDRV uses code coverage analysis to evaluate test effectiveness. While the test is running, all functions of the under test NIC driver are called can be recorded by a Dtrace script. At the end of the test, the code coverage rate will be shown. Testers can know which functions of the NIC driver routine are passed and which functions aren't called. This feature of the NICDRV framework is also used in developing new test cases for NIC.

We designed NICDRV as an open test platform. The test criteria can be adjusted based on the different models of NIC. If it is a high-end NIC, like 10Gb/s NIC, used on transmitting huge network data, testers can select a set of parameters with high level to test. If the NIC is just for low-end usage, a little data being transmitted (like 10Mb/s NIC), testers can adjust the parameters to a lower level. A new set of parameters can be added into NICDRV platform for the new model of NIC as the new test criteria. And also, new test cases can be added into NICDRV easily.

Test case introduction
Case Name	Type	Default Runtime	Description
Test00	functional	2(hours)	Data transmitting/receiving Ftp ipv4/ipv6
Test01	functional	3(hours)	Receiving/transmitting under promiscuous mode Netperf+snoop on/off
Test02	functional	1(hours)	Packets lost and zero length data pending ping all packet size
Test03	functional	2(hours)	Data corruption nfs corrupt
Test04	functional	1(hours)	Multicast IPmulticast
Test05	functional	5(mins)	ndd interface ndd read/write command
Test06	functional	3(hours)	Receiving/transmitting on different duplex/speed mode netperf on 10/100/1000Mbps duplex/speed mode
Test07	functional	20(mins)	Statistic kstat and netstat counter check
Test08	functional	2(hours)	Vlan Vlan plumb/FTP/nfs corrupt/MAXQ
Test09	functional	1(hours)	Trunking nfs corrupt on trunking interface
Test10	functional		load,unload driver Test driver load unload functionality
Test11	functional		DR(dynamic reconfiguration) test Test NIC driver dynamic reconfiguration support
netstress	stress	15(hours)	netperf (TCP/UDP)
loadunload	stress	6(hours)	load/unload with netperf

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