[LTP] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Rewrite route stress tests into C

[Petr Vorel]

Hi Alexey,

thanks for your comments.

> > Some issues:
> > * The test is only on lhost, no attempt to set iface on rhost and check
> > connection. The only check is done via error of libnl used. It's
> > questionable whether this way is good enough.

> True, it would be better to verify that the route is working and usable.

> At least, we could open a socket and send something using the route
> (ns-udpsender way)...
OK, I'll try at least this. And if it's not suitable enough, I'll have to get
back to shell (or I'd have to implement tst_rhost_run() in C).

> > If we want to have established connection, it'd be better to get back to
> > shell testing [1], just replace netstress to new tool (I'd prefer not
> > use ns-udpsender).> 
> > * rtnetlink is used via libnl, which is very lazy approach.
> > As subject of testing is route testing and not rtnetlink testing I
> > didn't reimplement rtnetlink socket communication from scratch, but I
> > guess I should. Also using link caching (used by functions from libnl-cli)
> > might not be a good idea (maybe using libmnl or only libnl-route would
> > be better if using library).

> And libmnl has an example:
> https://git.netfilter.org/libmnl/tree/examples/rtnl/rtnl-route-add.c
I noticed this as well, I'll use libmnl.

Kind regards,
Petr