Well it depends on what your actually studying...
1. You have written the code to implement a network bridge, and you want
to test
i. the codes correctness
ii. its ability to handle packets correctly for various
configurations and load
2. You have a network bridge, and you want to study how best to
configure it for various network and load scenarios.
For 1.i, normal unit testing should suffice, it all depends on the
implementation languages (and its commonly available libraries) support
for that kind of thing
For ii, you could try setting up multiple virtual hosts, using any of
the current tools for this (vmware allows you to create whole virtual
networks just for this kind of thing, user mode linux etc)
For 2, what Adam said I guess.
L
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 17 February 2006 3:08 AM
To: perl-qa@perl.org
Subject: Network Testing
Hello,
I'm currently working on a project that involves dynamically configuring
a
network bridge to shape network traffic. I want to set up automated
tests
to make sure that data flows the way that it should. This includes
blocking
or limiting traffic based on IPs and/or ports. Does anyone have
experience
in this area and are willing to give some tips/hints on the subject?
Thanks,
--
David Steinbrunner
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