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Linux Network Stack Test

The goal of this project is to provide a tool for network regression and performance testing focused mainly on bonding, bridging, VLAN and MAC-VLAN devices. But it can be used for ordinary network devices as well.

The main advantage this tool gives to a developer is an ability to automatically test hundreds of network setups involving not only machines but also managed switches without the necessity to configure each machine separately.

License, Source

• LNST is licensed under the GPL, version 2
• git on github

Communicate

• LNST is shared, designed, built, supported, and maintained by the people who use it, you are all part of our community.
• Comments, questions, bugs, feedback, ideas, help requests? We'd love to hear from you!
• The development mailing list - if you are submitting code, please join it.
• We are on IRC: #lnst @ freenode.net

Learn

• 1. About LNST:
  • Introductory Guide - Detailed overview of how LNST works
  • Quick Start Guide - Practical walk-through to get you started
  • FAQ - Can LNST do this? Frequently asked questions
• 2. Deploying LNST:
  • Installation Guide - From the RPM package or installing from source
  • Set Up Your Machine Pool - How to set up your test machines
  • Configure LNST - How to configure both lnst-ctl and lnst-slave
• 3. Using LNST To Test:
  • How To Structure LNST Recipes - Walk-through guide, best practices
  • LNST Invocation - How to execute the recipes, where to collect test results
  • Quick Guides - Brief and practical demonstrations of various capabilities of LNST recipes for the impatient
  • Test Modules - Test modules distributed with the LNST package
• 4. Advanced Topics:
  • Recipe XML Format - Complete description of the syntax used in LNST recipes
  • Slave Description XML Format - Complete description of the syntax used in Machine Configs
  • Creating Your Own Test Modules - Complete guide on how to create your own Test Module
  • Using Third-party Test Tools With LNST - How to use the test tools capability of LNST
  • LNST Task API - How to drive the task execution from a user-provided python program
  • Terminal Output Colouring - How to use configure and use coloured terminal output in LNST
  • Virtualization With LNST - How to integrate LNST with libvirt
  • Security - How to secure Controller <-> Slave communication
  • Beaker Integration - Not ready yet
• 5. Developer information:
  • Guidelines for Test Library Contributions - Would you like to contribute your tests upstream?
  • LNST tests - how to test that LNST works as it should

## Download * **RPM** packages for **Fedora 23** version 11 * [lnst](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/11/2.fc23/noarch/lnst-11-2.fc23.noarch.rpm) * [lnst-ctl](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/11/2.fc23/noarch/lnst-ctl-11-2.fc23.noarch.rpm) * [lnst-slave](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/11/2.fc23/noarch/lnst-slave-11-2.fc23.noarch.rpm) * [lnst-recipes](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/11/2.fc23/noarch/lnst-recipes-11-2.fc23.noarch.rpm) * **RPM** packages for **Fedora 24** version 12 * [lnst](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/12/1.fc24/noarch/lnst-12-1.fc24.noarch.rpm) * [lnst-ctl](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/12/1.fc24/noarch/lnst-ctl-12-1.fc24.noarch.rpm) * [lnst-slave](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/12/1.fc24/noarch/lnst-slave-12-1.fc24.noarch.rpm) * [lnst-recipes](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/12/1.fc24/noarch/lnst-recipes-12-1.fc24.noarch.rpm) * **RPM** packages for **EPEL 6** version 12 * [lnst](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/12/1.el6/noarch/lnst-12-1.el6.noarch.rpm) * [lnst-ctl](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/12/1.el6/noarch/lnst-ctl-12-1.el6.noarch.rpm) * [lnst-slave](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/12/1.el6/noarch/lnst-slave-12-1.el6.noarch.rpm) * [lnst-recipes](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/12/1.el6/noarch/lnst-recipes-12-1.el6.noarch.rpm) * **RPM** packages for **EPEL 7** version 12 * [lnst](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/12/1.el7/noarch/lnst-12-1.el7.noarch.rpm) * [lnst-ctl](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/12/1.el7/noarch/lnst-ctl-12-1.el7.noarch.rpm) * [lnst-slave](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/12/1.el7/noarch/lnst-slave-12-1.el7.noarch.rpm) * [lnst-recipes](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/lnst/12/1.el7/noarch/lnst-recipes-12-1.el7.noarch.rpm) * **Python Package Index** **OUTDATED** * [lnst-20130717git](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lnst/git) * **Latest tarball** * [lnst-latest.tar.gz](http://lnst-project.org/files/lnst-latest.tar.gz)

People

• Jiří Pírko (jpirko) – author of the project, kernel developer
• Jan Tluka (jtluka) – contributor, test development, Beaker integration, quality engineer
• Ondrej Lichtner (olichtne) - contributor, framework infrastructure implementation, quality engineer
• Jiří Procházka (jprochaz) - contributor, test development, quality engineer
• Kamil Jeřábek (kjerabek) - contributor, test development, quality engineer
• Radek Pazdera (rpazdera) - contributor, framework infrastructure implementation, test development, quality engineer
• Jiří Župka (jzupka) – contributor, framework infrastructure implementation, quality engineer