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<!-- Copyright (C) 2003 Red Hat, Inc. --> <!-- This material may be distributed only subject to the terms --> <!-- and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 --> <!-- or later (the latest version is presently available at --> <!-- http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/). --> <!-- Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any --> <!-- standard (paper) book form is prohibited unless prior --> <!-- permission is obtained from the copyright holder. --> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Standalone Tests</TITLE ><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="eCos Reference Manual" HREF="ecos-ref.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Tests and Demonstrations" HREF="net-common-tests-and-demonstrations.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Building the Network Tests" HREF="net-common-building-the-network-tests.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Performance Test" HREF="net-common-performance-test.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >eCos Reference Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="net-common-building-the-network-tests.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 36. 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This tests interworking with the server.</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" ><SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >ping_test</I ></SPAN > - pings “server” and non-existent host to test timeout</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >This test initializes the interface(s) then pings the server machine in the standard way, then pings address “32 up” from the server in the expectation that there is no machine there. This confirms that the successful ping is not a false positive, and tests the receive timeout. If there is such a machine, of course the 2nd set of pings succeeds, confirming that we can talk to a machine not previously mentioned by configuration or by bootp. It then does the same thing on the other interface, eth1.</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" ><SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >dhcp_test</I ></SPAN > - ping test, but also manipulates DHCP leases</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >This test is very similar to the ping test, but in addition, provided the network package is not configured to do this automatically, it manually relinquishes and reclaims DHCP leases for all available interfaces. This tests the external API to DHCP. See section below describing this.</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" ><SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >flood</I ></SPAN > - a flood ping test; use with care</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >This test performs pings on all interfaces as quickly as possible, and only prints status information periodically. 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