[openbeosnetteam] Re: Testing the stack
- From: "Philippe Houdoin" <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 19:10:52 GMT
> Hi,
>
> > >You can use jam install-networking.
> > >The net_stack_driver will not be installed anymore. Philippe, I
> > >forgot why you did that.
> >
> > Do I still need net_server_driver? If I dont copy the net_stack
> > and
> > net_server driver files to
> > /boot/home/config/addons/kernel/drivers/bin, the commands do not
> > work.
>
> net_server_driver is only needed if you want to test the userland
> stack.
> The net_stack_driver is used to communicate with the netstack.
> Without it libnet.so will not be able to create a socket, etc.
>
> > >The userland test stack did not work very well (at least for me).
> >
> > I'm not using BONE, just straight R5.03 net_server... Should I kill
> > net_server before testing? I'm thinking so...
>
> The best is to comment the net_server out of your BootScript.
>
> > So, this is the procedure I will follow:
> >
> > 1. jam NetworkingKit
>
> This is needed to compile the net_stack/server_drivers.
>
> > 2. jam install-networking
> > 3. copy net_server_driver/net_stack_driver to the proper directory
>
> 3.1. create the links in the dev/net dir (only the first loop ;)
>
> > 4. disable the NIC in Preferences | Network
> > 5. kill net_server
>
> You should also test a clean system (no net_server was running).
>
> > 6. go to /current/tests/kits/net and run ifconfig <mynic>
> > <mynetaddress>
> > 7. run ping, traceroute, etc..
> > 8. make changes
> > 9. jmp 1
> >
> > Does this look like a proper procedure?
>
> Yes, it looks very nice. I hope you will soon get to point 8. ;)
>
> > Also, is our stack entirely contained within the libnet.so and
> > libnetapi.so files? I guess this harkens back to question about
> > whether either of the net_*_driver files are actually needed...
>
> Our libnet.so only talks to net_stack_driver. When you create a
> socket it opens /dev/net/stack and uses some ioctl() calls to configure
everything. The handle that is returned is the opened file handle to
the /dev/net/stack driver. This allows you to use POSIX read/write/
close like in a normal BSD environment.
>
> > I want to iron out a very definite testing procedure that I can
> > thoroughly document.
>
> This would be really helpful for newcomers. Thanks.
>
> Waldemar
>
>
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