BIND 10 #2607: DHCP Extended Testing

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#2607: DHCP Extended Testing
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            Reporter:  stephen       |                        Owner:
                Type:  task          |  UnAssigned
            Priority:  medium        |                       Status:
           Component:  dhcp          |  reviewing
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           Sensitive:  0             |  Sprint-DHCP-20130214
         Sub-Project:  DHCP          |                   Resolution:
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Changes (by tmark):

 * owner:  tmark => UnAssigned
 * status:  accepted => reviewing


Comment:

 I created a set of manual tests that cover basic stability of both DHCP4
 and
  DHCPv6 servers:

     1. Basic Stability - The ability of the server to process lease
 requests
     for an extended period of time without crashing or exhaustion of
     system resources (memory, cpu).

     2. Junk Packet Hanlding - The ability of the server to recoginize and
     discard packtes that do not represent valid DHCP-related packets

     3. Combined Stability - The ability of the servers (v4 and v6) to
 operate
     simoultaneously, processing lease requests fro an extended period of
     time

 The results from the tests are attached as gzip file.

 The test descriptions and the configuration files are available in the
 dhcp-val repo:
 dhcp-val/tests/common These tests are:


     v4.junk-reject
     v4.stability
     v6.junk-reject
     v6.stability
     both.stability

     With respect to the combination test (both.stability), the tar ball
 includes
     scripts to run the v4 and v6 clients that were based on existing
 scripts in
     the dhcp-val repo.  These have not been added to repo yet.

 One issue was discovered during initial runs of v4.stability:
     #2697   Dhcp4 process crashes on smart ptr assertion accessing
 client_id

     An initial correction of this has been tested and is currently being
 finalized.

 General issue with dchp4 when running the v4.stability test, the server
 always
 issues a new address rather than renewing the existing one, event though
 the
 client id is identical. Speculation is that test bed topology may be
 playing
 a role in this. Shawn R. has some thoughts on this matter.

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