BIND 10 #3185: Kea: add ability to read pcap files and process them into Pkt4 and Pkt6

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#3185: Kea: add ability to read pcap files and process them into Pkt4 and Pkt6
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            Reporter:  tomek         |                        Owner:
                Type:  enhancement   |                       Status:  new
            Priority:  medium        |                    Milestone:  DHCP
           Component:  dhcp          |  Outstanding Tasks
            Keywords:                |                   Resolution:
           Sensitive:  0             |                 CVSS Scoring:
         Sub-Project:  DHCP          |              Defect Severity:  N/A
Estimated Difficulty:  0             |  Feature Depending on Ticket:
         Total Hours:  0             |          Add Hours to Ticket:  0
                                     |                    Internal?:  0
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Description changed by tomek:

Old description:

> We should develop a test that will read all pcap files from specified
> directory and try to process all DHCP packets in them through Kea. That
> would be a very flexible and extensible approach. To add a new test case,
> we'd have to only add new pcap file. The pcap collection could be
> confidential and stored separately.
>
> This would require to have the ability to read pcap files. We can either
> use libpcap for that or hack it. We don't need much functionality, just
> extracting the packets as raw hex data. I'm slightly concerned with
> adding extra dependency on another library and dealing with its
> portability issues.
>
> This could be extended into DNS as well.
>
> See ticket:3177:comment:7 for a brief discussion.

New description:

 We should develop a test that will read all pcap files from specified
 directory and try to process all DHCP packets in them through Kea. That
 would be a very flexible and extensible approach. To add a new test case,
 we'd have to only add new pcap file. The pcap collection could be
 confidential and stored separately.

 This would require to have the ability to read pcap files. We can either
 use libpcap for that or hack it. We don't need much functionality, just
 extracting the packets as raw hex data. I'm slightly concerned with adding
 extra dependency on another library and dealing with its portability
 issues.

 This could be extended into DNS as well.

 See ticket:3177#comment:7 for a brief discussion.

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