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Daniel Hilst
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xCAT's DHCP behaviour is tested from two directions today, neither of which
touches the wire: xCAT-test/unit/dhcp_*.t assert on generated config text, and
xCAT-test/integration/dhcp_{isc,kea}_config_validation.t feed that config to a
real daemon and check it parses. Both stop at "the server accepted our
config". Nothing verifies that a client sending option 93 = 0x000b actually
gets an aarch64 loader back.
The one existing wire tool, xCAT-probe/subcmds/detect_dhcpd, hand-packs a
fixed DISCOVER carrying no option 60, 77 or 93 (so it never reaches any arch
branch), parses replies by regexing tcpdump output, and binds an
IO::Socket::INET to a local address, so it cannot run on a provisioning NIC
that has no address yet.
dhcptest fills that gap. It is a Python 3 tool using only the standard library
plus Scapy, speaking raw Layer 2, driving DHCP transactions declared in INI
files and asserting on what came back:
dhcptest run -i eth1 --set net=10.0.0.0/24 conf/full-lease.conf
dhcptest validate conf/*.conf # no root, no network, no scapy
dhcptest list conf/*.conf
dhcptest discover -i eth1 # ad-hoc, no conf file
Scenarios cover DISCOVER/OFFER, the full lease, renew and rebind, reserved
versus pooled addresses, deliberate silence, the PXE architecture matrix and
the iPXE user-class split. Assertions are a small DSL -- target, operator,
value -- over message type, BOOTP header fields, options by number or name,
subnet membership, and the boot file a client would actually use (option 67
or the header, since servers differ on which they fill).
Two boundaries are enforced by unit test rather than by convention:
- The tool is implementation-agnostic. It exchanges packets and checks
fields; it never reads the xCAT database, never runs an xCAT command, and
names no DHCP implementation. Anything that differs between servers is
expressed by whoever writes the .conf.
- Only runner.py imports scapy, so validate and list stay usable in CI on a
host with neither scapy nor root.
Host networking is never modified. The client MAC defaults to a synthetic
locally-administered address, everything goes over a raw L2 socket, no leased
address is ever configured, and the ARP responder answers only for addresses
the session was actually granted.
Variables in .conf files are configparser's own BasicInterpolation, %(name)s,
fed from [vars] and --set. $offer.address and friends are resolved separately
at step-execution time, because they name a reply that has not arrived when
the file is read; BasicInterpolation gives $ no meaning, so the two coexist
without escaping.
Packaging and CI:
- xCAT-test.spec installs dhcptest alongside unit/ and integration/, and
only recommends python3-scapy: it lives in EPEL on EL, and a hard Requires
would make xCAT-test uninstallable on a management node without EPEL.
The deb depends on it outright.
- github_action_xcat_test.pl runs the unit tests and `dhcptest validate`
last, after the fast regression.
- autotest/testcase/dhcptest/cases0 carries the two offline cases plus a
wire case that stands down with an explanation when no provisioning NIC
is available.
Verified against a real DHCP server in a network namespace: 34 lease, renew,
rebind, reservation and silence assertions and 22 PXE/iPXE assertions all
pass, and host networking is untouched before and after.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
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Source: xcat-test
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Section: admin
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Priority: extra
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Maintainer: xCAT <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
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Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9)
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Standards-Version: 3.9.4
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Homepage: https://xcat.org/
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Package: xcat-test
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Architecture: all
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Depends: ${perl:Depends}, python3-scapy
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Description: xCAT automated test tool
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Provides automated test tool and buckets to help test xCAT commands
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automatically.
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