Test Day:2011-06-08 IPv6

Fedora Test Days
World IPv6 Test Day
Date	June-08-2011
Time	all day
Website	http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/
IRC	#fedora-test-day (webirc)
Mailing list	test

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What to test?

Since June 8, 2011 is the World IPv6 Day, today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on IPv6 testing.

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

• Development - User:Thomas Graf (irc: tgraf), User:Herbert Xu (irc: herbert), User: lwang (irc: lwang)

Prerequisite for Test Day

List any prerequisite needs for the test event.

• A system with IPv6 enabled
• An internet connection via ISP
• An IPv6 address from your beloved ISP, and an ISP who supports IPv6. :)

Here's a chunk which is commonly used for most Test Days. Replace XX with whatever Fedora release is pending:

• An updated Fedora 15 pre-release, Rawhide (tips on installing Rawhide below), or a nightly live image
• Your hardware profile uploaded to Smolt according to these instructions

How to test?

High level details on how a contributor can get involved. This can include (but not limited to):

I. To set up IPv6 connectivty on RHEL or Fedora

  1. Check if your ISP offers native IPv6 connectivity. If so, follow the instructions of your ISP. If not you are going to need a tunnel broker, proceed to step 2.
  2. For this example we are going to use http://www.tunnelbroker.net/ by Hurricane Electric but any tunnel broker will work.
  3. Go to http://www.tunnelbroker.net/register.php and fill out the form to create a new account.
  4. Login to your account and click on Create Regular Tunnel
  5. Enter your public IPv4 address in the IPv4 Endpoint field (Note: You can change your endpoint address later anytime if your addres is not 100% static), select the tunnel server closest to you and click on the Create Tunnel button.
  6. You will be given multiple example scripts to set up the tunnel on your end or you can use the script provided below. (Select OS: linux-route2)
  7. Click on Main Page to find a list of your tunnels at the end. You can modify your tunnel, allocate your own /48 or set up rDNS delegation by clicking on the tunnel.
  8. Feel free to enable forwarding on your tunnel machine and assign addresses from your own /64 or /48 to the machines on your network to provide IPv6 connectivity to your own network.
  9. Security: The default firewall will also apply to IPv6 traffic but be aware that if you assigned public addresses to the machines on your network, those machine may now be reachable from the outside.

B. Example Tunnel Script:

Go to the configuration page of your tunnel (Main Page => Click on your tunnel) to find the settings needed to fill into the script.

1. !/bin/sh

LOCAL=CHANGE!!! # Client Ipv4 address ADDR=CHANGE!!! # Client Ipv6 address REMOTE=CHANGE!!! # Server IPv4 address

ip tunnel del he-ipv6 > /dev/null 2>&1

ip tunnel add he-ipv6 mode sit remote ${REMOTE} local ${LOCAL} ttl 255 ip link set he-ipv6 up

ip addr add ${ADDR} dev he-ipv6 ip route add ::/0 dev he-ipv6

• Areas to target with exploratory testing

 1. ifconfig your interface to make sure your IPv6 address are setup correctly.
 2. ping various external ipv6 websites such as 'ipv6.google.com' to see if
    you can download the web content through your ipv6 connection
 3. run test program here: http://test-ipv6.com/ 
 

• How to report back results

 1. send email to kernel-network-list@redhat.com

Here's another common chunk (again, replace XX as above):

Update your machine

If you're running Fedora 15, make sure you have all the current updates for it installed, using the update manager. If you want to try Rawhide, see the instructions on the Rawhide page on the various ways in which you can install or update to Rawhide. Or:

Live image

Optionally, you may download a non-destructive Rawhide live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD. Live images can be found here.

Test Cases

Provide a list of test areas or test cases that you'd like contributors to execute. For other examples, see Category:Test_Cases.

Test Results

Construct a table or list to allow testers to post results. Each column should be a test case or configuration, and each row should consist of test results. Include some instructions on how to report bugs, and any special instructions. Here's an example, from a Palimpsest test day:

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla usually for the component udisks, or gnome-disk-utility for bugs in the Palimpsest graphical front end itself. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from the first line as a template. The first column should be your name with a link to your User page in the Wiki if you have one, and the second should be a link to the Smolt profile of the system you tested. For each test case, use the result template to enter your result, as shown in the example result line.

User	Smolt Profile	Sample test 1	Sample test 2	Sample test 3	Sample test 4	References
Sample User	HW	none	pass	warn	fail