It's the default configuration (if the RHOST environment variable is not defined). LTP adds ltp_ns network namespace and auto-configure veth pair according to LTP network environment variables.
This setup requires the RHOST environment variable to be set properly and configured SSH access to a remote host.
The RHOST variable must be set to the hostname of the server (test management link) and public key setup or login without password is required.
SSH server needs to be configured to allow root login and use Public Key Authentication (PermitRootLogin yes and PubkeyAuthentication yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config).
Some of the network stress tests which hasn't been ported to network API were designed to be tested with rsh via LTP_RSH environment variable. Now it's by default used ssh, for details see testcases/network/stress/README.
Tests have various external dependencies, exit with TCONF when not installed. Some tests require additional setup.
FTP stress tests and telnet server tests require environment variables RHOST (remote machine), RUSER (remote user) and PASSWD (remote password). NOTE: RHOST will imply two host configuration for other tests.
If RUSER is set to root, either of these steps is required:
In /etc/ftpusers (or /etc/vsftpd.ftpusers), comment the line containing "root" string. This file lists all those users who are not given access to do ftp on the current system.
If you don’t want to do the previous step, put following entry into /root/.netrc:
machine <remote_server_name> login root password <remote_root_password>
HTTP stress tests require configured and running web server (Apache2, Nginx, etc.).
NFS tests require running NFS server, enable and start nfs-server.service (Debian/Ubuntu and openSUSE/SLES: nfs-kernel-server package, others: nfs-server package).
There is no detection whether service is running, test will simply fail without warning.
TI-RPC (or glibc legacy Sun RPC) tests require running rpcbind (or portmap on old distributions), enable and start rpcbind.service.
Install LTP testsuite (see INSTALL). In case of two hosts configuration, LTP needs to be installed the same exact location and LTPROOT and PATH environment variables set on both client and server machines. This is required because some tests expect to find server files in certain locations.
Example for the default prefix /opt/ltp:
export LTPROOT="/opt/ltp"; export PATH="$LTPROOT/testcases/bin:$PATH"
The network tests are executed by running the network.sh script:
TEST_VARS ./network.sh OPTIONS
Where
TEST_VARS - non-default network parametersOPTIONS - test group(s), use -h to see available ones.Default values for all LTP network parameters are set in testcases/lib/tst_net.sh. Network stress parameters are documented in testcases/network/stress/README.
Both single and two host configurations support debugging via TST_NET_RHOST_RUN_DEBUG=1 environment variable.