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<title>passt/test/demo/pasta, branch 2022_08_24.60ffc5b</title>
<subtitle>Plug A Simple Socket Transport</subtitle>
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<title>demo: Use git protocol downloads</title>
<updated>2022-07-22T17:42:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-07-15T05:21:41+00:00</published>
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For some reason using https to clone from the passt git repo is very slow,
at least from network-distant places.  Use git protocol in the demo instead
to avoid a tedious wait to get the source.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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For some reason using https to clone from the passt git repo is very slow,
at least from network-distant places.  Use git protocol in the demo instead
to avoid a tedious wait to get the source.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>tests: Use socat instead of netcat</title>
<updated>2022-07-22T17:41:42+00:00</updated>
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<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-07-15T05:21:34+00:00</published>
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Commit 41c02e10 ("tests: Use nmap-ncat instead of openbsd netcat for pasta
tests") updated the pasta tests to use the nmap version of ncat instead of
the openbsd version, for greater portability.

For some upcoming changes, however, we'll be wanting to use socat.
"socat" can do everything "ncat" can and more, so let's move all the
tests using host tools (either directly on the host or via mbuto
generated images) to using socat instead.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
[sbrivio: Fix a typo in port specification, 31337 instead of x31337]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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Commit 41c02e10 ("tests: Use nmap-ncat instead of openbsd netcat for pasta
tests") updated the pasta tests to use the nmap version of ncat instead of
the openbsd version, for greater portability.

For some upcoming changes, however, we'll be wanting to use socat.
"socat" can do everything "ncat" can and more, so let's move all the
tests using host tools (either directly on the host or via mbuto
generated images) to using socat instead.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
[sbrivio: Fix a typo in port specification, 31337 instead of x31337]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>test: In pasta demo, issue /sbin/dhclient instead of dhclient</title>
<updated>2022-07-22T17:41:42+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2022-07-21T11:56:26+00:00</published>
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This was dependent on my own environment where I usually have /sbin
in $PATH. If that's missing, given that we're running dhclient as
user, we won't find it.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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This was dependent on my own environment where I usually have /sbin
in $PATH. If that's missing, given that we're running dhclient as
user, we won't find it.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>test: In demos, use pgrep instead of pstree to find namespace PID</title>
<updated>2022-07-22T17:41:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2022-07-21T11:53:21+00:00</published>
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Parsing pstree's output is somewhat unreliable: there might be
multiple pasta instances running on the same host, and depending on
the overall output width pstree might truncate some branches.

Ask pasta to save its PID to file, and use that as parameter for
pgrep to find the PID of the interactive shell whose user and network
namespaces we want to join.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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Parsing pstree's output is somewhat unreliable: there might be
multiple pasta instances running on the same host, and depending on
the overall output width pstree might truncate some branches.

Ask pasta to save its PID to file, and use that as parameter for
pgrep to find the PID of the interactive shell whose user and network
namespaces we want to join.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>tests: Explicitly list test files in test/run, remove "onlyfor" support</title>
<updated>2022-07-13T23:32:42+00:00</updated>
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<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-07-06T07:29:06+00:00</published>
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Currently test/run uses wildcards to run all of the tests in a directory.
However, that wildcard list is filtered down by the "onlyfor" directives
in the test files... usually to a single file.

Therefore, just explicitly list the files we *really* want to run for this
test mode.  This makes it easier to see at the top level what tests will
be executed, and to change that list temporarily while debugging specific
failures.

This means the "onlyfor" directive no longer has any purpose, and we can
remove it.  "onlyfor" was also the only used of the $MODE variable, so we
can remove that too.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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Currently test/run uses wildcards to run all of the tests in a directory.
However, that wildcard list is filtered down by the "onlyfor" directives
in the test files... usually to a single file.

Therefore, just explicitly list the files we *really* want to run for this
test mode.  This makes it easier to see at the top level what tests will
be executed, and to change that list temporarily while debugging specific
failures.

This means the "onlyfor" directive no longer has any purpose, and we can
remove it.  "onlyfor" was also the only used of the $MODE variable, so we
can remove that too.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>tests: Use nmap-ncat instead of openbsd netcat for pasta tests</title>
<updated>2022-06-18T07:05:06+00:00</updated>
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<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-06-10T02:32:45+00:00</published>
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A number of the testcases use options specific the OpenBSD version of
netcat.  That's available in Debian, but not easily available in Fedora.
Switch the pasta tests to using the nmap version of netcat (a.k.a. ncat).
This is easily available in both Debian and Fedora, and appears to be a
bit more modern and maintained as well.

ncat generally requires explicit listen addresses (which is good for
clarity anywhere).  Its default options appear to remove the need for the
-N and -q options.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
[sbrivio: changed one ncat listening address to IPv6 loopback]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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A number of the testcases use options specific the OpenBSD version of
netcat.  That's available in Debian, but not easily available in Fedora.
Switch the pasta tests to using the nmap version of netcat (a.k.a. ncat).
This is easily available in both Debian and Fedora, and appears to be a
bit more modern and maintained as well.

ncat generally requires explicit listen addresses (which is good for
clarity anywhere).  Its default options appear to remove the need for the
-N and -q options.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
[sbrivio: changed one ncat listening address to IPv6 loopback]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>Tweak dhclient arguments for readability</title>
<updated>2022-06-15T07:38:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-06-10T02:32:43+00:00</published>
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A number of tests and examples use dhclient in both IPv4 and IPv6 modes.
We use "dhclient -6" for IPv6, but usually just "dhclient" for IPv4.  Add
an explicit "-4" argument to make it more clear and explicit.

In addition, when dhclient is run from within pasta it usually won't be
"real" root, and so will not have access to write the default global pid
file.  This results in a mostly harmless but irritating error:
    Can't create /var/run/dhclient.pid: Permission denied
We can avoid that by using the --no-pid flag to dhclient.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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A number of tests and examples use dhclient in both IPv4 and IPv6 modes.
We use "dhclient -6" for IPv6, but usually just "dhclient" for IPv4.  Add
an explicit "-4" argument to make it more clear and explicit.

In addition, when dhclient is run from within pasta it usually won't be
"real" root, and so will not have access to write the default global pid
file.  This results in a mostly harmless but irritating error:
    Can't create /var/run/dhclient.pid: Permission denied
We can avoid that by using the --no-pid flag to dhclient.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>Don't abbreviate ip(8) arguments in examples and tests</title>
<updated>2022-06-15T07:38:10+00:00</updated>
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<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-06-10T02:32:42+00:00</published>
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ip(8)'s ability to take abbreviated arguments (e.g. "li sh" instead of
"link show") is very handy when using it interactively, but it doesn't make
for very readable scripts and examples when shown that way.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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ip(8)'s ability to take abbreviated arguments (e.g. "li sh" instead of
"link show") is very handy when using it interactively, but it doesn't make
for very readable scripts and examples when shown that way.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>demo/pasta: Fix bad sleep directive</title>
<updated>2022-05-19T13:24:15+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2022-05-18T23:22:33+00:00</published>
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'sleep' always needs an argument, this was meant to introduce
a 2 seconds delay.

Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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'sleep' always needs an argument, this was meant to introduce
a 2 seconds delay.

Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>demo/pasta: Clean up before rebuilding with -g</title>
<updated>2022-03-01T20:32:08+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2022-03-01T20:32:08+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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