From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Use dhclient instead of udhcpc
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:47:18 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yqf2tk1/SvLIQfCK@yekko> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220614033259.1d9eda12@elisabeth>
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 03:32:59AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2022 12:32:44 +1000
> David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>
> > For some reason, the passt/pasta tests and examples use dhclient for
> > DHCPv6, but in most cases use udhcpc for DHCPv4.
>
> ...the reason was that udhcpc doesn't do DHCPv6, and for DHCP I
> started with udhcpc,
Yeah, that's kinda what I guessed.
> then wanted to add a bit of diversity (udhcpc in
> tests for pasta, dhclient for passt) -- it helped to find some bugs
> earlier on.
Ah. So I think we could potentially restore that kind of testing, but
move it into tests with specifically constructed guests (or container
images) where we can choose the distro and get udhcpc (or other
clients to test those to. For now, I don't think we want it in the
"base" set of tests though.
> Given that dhclient is anyway pickier than udhcpc, I think we can
> safely stick to the former at this point.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-14 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-10 2:32 [PATCH 0/5] More test fixes for Fedora host David Gibson
2022-06-10 2:32 ` [PATCH 1/5] tests: Use more explicit netcat options for distro/fedora tests David Gibson
2022-06-14 14:10 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-06-15 0:35 ` David Gibson
2022-06-10 2:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] Don't abbreviate ip(8) arguments in examples and tests David Gibson
2022-06-10 2:32 ` [PATCH 3/5] Tweak dhclient arguments for readability David Gibson
2022-06-10 2:32 ` [PATCH 4/5] Use dhclient instead of udhcpc David Gibson
2022-06-14 1:32 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-06-14 2:47 ` David Gibson [this message]
2022-06-10 2:32 ` [PATCH 5/5] tests: Use nmap-ncat instead of openbsd netcat for pasta tests David Gibson
2022-06-18 7:03 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-06-14 1:32 ` [PATCH 0/5] More test fixes for Fedora host Stefano Brivio
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