Yep, those ping6> prompts means to run it from the NUT.
There's a way to set up the self-test to remotely run those pings
automatically for you, but it wouldn't work for our device, so I wrote a
set of expect and minicom scripts to automate the whole process. It let
me kick off the test, go home, and look at the results in the morning
the next day. If there's anything I've done right in my life, it was
learning to use expect. :-)
--
Jon Franklin
jon_franklin@dell.com
x3-8143
-----Original Message-----
From: Brett.Lee@Sun.COM [mailto:Brett.Lee@Sun.COM]
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 9:19 AM
To: users@tahi.org
Subject: [users:01270] Re: Self_Test - Path MTU - Interface Question
Nope!
That was one of the alternatives I was considering. So that's the
answer, issue the series of pings from the NUT?
Thanks for the quick response, Jon, and congratulations on your
successful tests.
-Brett
Jon_Franklin@Dell.com wrote:
> Are you issuing this from the NUT (your device being tested)?
>
> --
> Jon Franklin
> jon_franklin@dell.com
> x3-8143
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett.Lee@Sun.COM [mailto:Brett.Lee@Sun.COM]
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:38 AM
> To: users@tahi.org
> Subject: [users:01268] Self_Test - Path MTU - Interface Question
>
> Hello,
>
> Am running Self_Test 4-0-5, and have a question with:
>
> Section 4: RFC 1981 - Path MTU Discovery for IPv6
> Test Case 15: Multicast Destination - One Router
>
> As part of executing the test case, I am being prompted to issue a
ping
> command:
>
> ping6> Press enter key, and excute the following commands within 5
> seconds.
> ping6> Do ``ping6 DataSize= 1452, Send Count= 1, Interface= lnc0,
> Destination= FF1E::1:2''
>
> After pressing ENTER, attempts to execute this command from the test
> node result in an error:
>
> # ping6 -s 1452 -c 1 -I lnc0 FF1E::1:2
> ping6: lnc0: invalid interface name
>
> Have also tried an alternate execution of the command, substituting
> "lnc0" with "fxp1" (the physical interface for that link), but as
"fxp1"
>
> has IPv6 disabled (per the v6eval instructions), that attempt fails
> also.
>
> # ping6 -s 1452 -c 1 -I lnc0 fxp1::1:2
> ping6: hostname nor servname provided, or not known
>
> # ifconfig fxp1
> fxp1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
> 1500
> options=8<VLAN_MTU>
> ether 00:06:5b:39:75:0b
> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX)
> status: active
>
> Do I need to configure "lnc0" to support multicast?
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks in advance, -Brett
>
>
>
>