hi all, I would like to ask you for help on how to simulate a
connection timeout on a local machine. Please cc' me since I'm not on this
alias.
I'm working on several RFE's for SSH and one is to resync client
side ConnectTimeout feature from OpenSSH. That's the easy part - set socket
as non-blocking, call connect() and then select().
however, I would like to add a new test case into STC-2 SSH test
suite. The question is how to simulate a situation where "ssh -o
ConnectTimeout=5 somehost" will timeout in 5 seconds if I can configure/use
local machine only.
I thought about ipfilter on lo0 before I found out that loopback
cannot be filtered on. I then thought about -blackhole flag. I found out
that the system responded with "No route to host" when I wanted to connect
using that route (route add 1.2.3.4 127.0.0.1 -blackhole).
I guess I might setup two zones and filter between them but I hope
for an easier solution. The less code to setup a testing environment the
better. I'm out of ideas. Any help please?
adding 2nd machine to the STC-2 SSH test suite is also not an
option, the setup would be then too complicated.
thank you, Jan.
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Jan Pechanec
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