[ipxe-devel] PXE testing

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Tue Jun 10 18:36:27 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Brian Rak <brak at gameservers.com> wrote:

>  There's http://ipxe.org/dev/driver but that is not a full test suite.
>
> On 6/10/2014 3:40 AM, Wissam Shoukair wrote:
>
>  Hi All,
>
> Does anyone knows if there is a test suite for the PXE booting process?
> (similar to IXIA testing)
>
> I mean a complete testing environment, which includes DHCP server,
> ProxyDHCP server, TFTP server and all other services which the booting
> process use, and in the end of each test the test suite generates a report
> according to the client’s behavior (responses)
>
>
>
> If No, is there any kind of automatic test suite for iPXE?
>
>
I have been pondering how to setup Vagrant to mange 2 or 3 VMs so that I
can debug deployment scripts, which start with pxe.

Not what you are looking for, but seems like it might be useful.

>
>
> Last but not least, does anyone knows about a tool which generates packets
> according to what it received? For example, If I need to reproduce an issue
> with DHCP process, and a PXE client sends DHCP Discover, this tool should
> listen on port 67, handle the received DHCP Discover and generate a DHCP
> reply according to the info in the received DHCP Discover?
>
>
How would this be different than a dhcp server?




>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wissam
>
>
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