For testing network devices it's common to use scapy, but this approach has typcally 2 main problems:
- Handling the sending - receiving packet logic
- Lack of abstraction of the infraestructure
Using pytest with TREX API we can run our tests overcoming those problems. It also permit us to run tests in parallel on different devices
It's turned out that the TREX api code that's in the repo doesn't work in MacOS by default
The Vagrantfile deploys us the typical DUT infraestructure:
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+---------+ T-Rex +---------+
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We can use the --config option to select the IP of the trex server and leverage T-Rex to handle the sending receiving packet logic permitting us to focus only in the testing scenarios.
The following code in the conftest.py file handle the --config option:
def pytest_addoption(parser):
parser.addoption("--config", action="store",
help="Configuration file")
def pytest_configure(config):
filename = config.getoption("--config")
with open(filename) as f:
config.yaml_cfg = yaml.load(f.read())We can use a fixture ( check the pytest documentation if you don't know what is this ) to connect to the Trex API server and pass it to the tests:
@pytest.fixture(scope='session')
def trex(request):
# verbose_level = LoggerApi.VERBOSE_HIGH
server = request.config.yaml_cfg['trex']['server']
my_ports = request.config.yaml_cfg['trex']['ports']
c = STLClient(server=server)
# connect to server
c.connect()
# prepare our ports
c.reset(ports=my_ports)
def tearDown():
c.stop()
c.remove_all_captures()
c.set_service_mode(enabled=False)
c.disconnect()
request.addfinalizer(tearDown)
return cWe need to configure the mac addresses of the interfaces and add static arp entries in the DUT. The Vagrantfile use static mac address and automatically configure Trex to use them, in the DUT we need to configure it manually:
root@vsrx# show interfaces
ge-0/0/0 {
unit 0 {
family inet {
dhcp;
}
}
}
ge-0/0/1 {
unit 0 {
family inet {
address 192.168.50.5/24 {
arp 192.168.50.4 mac 08:00:27:11:22:01;
}
}
}
}
ge-0/0/2 {
unit 0 {
family inet {
address 192.168.60.5/24 {
arp 192.168.60.4 mac 08:00:27:11:22:02;
}
}
}
}
Now we are are ready to start to create our tests:
def test_one_packet(trex):
tx_port, rx_port = trex.get_all_ports()
trex.reset(ports=[tx_port, rx_port])
# activate service mode on RX code
trex.set_service_mode(ports=rx_port)
# generate a simple UDP packet
pkt = Ether() / IP() / UDP()
pkt[IP].src = "192.168.50.4"
pkt[IP].dst = "192.168.60.4"
# start a capture
capture = trex.start_capture(rx_ports=rx_port)
# push the UDP packet to TX port... we need 'force' because this is under service mode
print('\nSending 1 UDP packet(s) on port {}'.format(tx_port))
trex.push_packets(ports=tx_port, pkts=pkt, force=True)
trex.wait_on_traffic(ports=tx_port, rx_delay_ms=1000)
# we need to block with Virtualbox because the delay is huge
time.sleep(0.5)
rx_pkts = []
trex.stop_capture(capture_id=capture['id'], output=rx_pkts)
print('\nRecived {} packets on port {}:\n'.format(len(rx_pkts), rx_port))
trex.set_service_mode(ports=rx_port, enabled=False)
# got back one packet
assert(len(rx_pkts) == 1)
rx_scapy_pkt = Ether(rx_pkts[0]['binary'])
# Check if it's the same packet
assert('UDP' in rx_scapy_pkt)and run them:
aojea (e) venv master ~ projects pytest-trex tests pytest --config=config.local.yaml
==================================================== test session starts =====================================================
platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.12, pytest-3.2.3, py-1.4.34, pluggy-0.4.0
rootdir: /home/aojea/projects/pytest-trex/tests, inifile: pytest.ini
collected 1 item
test_simple.py .
================================================== 1 passed in 0.74 seconds ==================================================
aojea (e) venv master ~ projects pytest-trex tests
- It's turned out that is not straightforward to run it in Mac, you need to install sosome things manually and compile zmq.
brew install --with-python libdnet
pip install pcapy
pip install scapy- Automate DUT configuration
- Parametrize tests to run with multiple protocols
- Run tests against multiple devices