[LTP] [RFC PATCH v5 0/3] Simplify network setup

[Petr Vorel]

Hi Alexey,

> Regarding IPV{4,6}_NETWORK calculation, I believe it would much
> simpler ifwe saved the same part of address from IPV{4,6}_HOST
> variables to_NETWORK variable and what is differ to the other
> variables.There is no need to any additional checks for these
> environment variables or I'm missing something?
You're right - calculating just network part and then get host part by substring operation
will be probably less error-prone. I planned to write some tests latter (sorry for not
including it now), but this is really better solution.

> Hmm, I didn't find how the patch is getting network prefix
> on the remote host, is it because of the assumption that they
> should be the same on both hosts?
Yes. So far we have just one IPV{4,6}_NETWORK variable for both, so I guess this makes us to use
the same network for both.

> It is fine for now as it's
> not so common for a test environment to have different ones,
> so the better approach in the future is to make a separate tool
> (installed on both hosts with LTP) and get prefixes from
> local and remote host similar to tst_get_hwaddrs() in test_net.sh.
I'm ok to make C binary which reads prefix, which will be run on both local and remote
hosts. But to be actually used, we'd need to change all tests using IPV{4,6}_NETWORK to
use different variables for local and remote hosts. I'd like to do it after having this
merged. I have also in my TODO list creating tst_net_reverse_ip binary for
stress/multicast and stress/route tests groups.

BTW is there a better/simpler way to get prefix than what I wrote?


Kind regards,
Petr