Ethernet device stress testing

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During kernel upstreaming for chromiumos devices a standalone ethernet subssystem testing script was needed.

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During testing of power management patches for usb ethernet dongles, a script was needed to stress test connecting/disconnecting/reconnecting these devices.

Luckily a script like that already exists as a part of the chromiumos project, and can be found here.

That script does however not run standalone and requires a remote device (chromebook) to execute on. So I took the liberty of changing it to support local testing. The modified version can be found here.

This might come in handy for someone, if not, the script will at least be archived on this site.

Example

$ sudo pip2.7 install autotest
$ ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: wlp2s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 48:e2:44:f6:e8:5b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
27: enx000ec689ab9e: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:0e:c6:89:ab:9e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
$ export INTERFACE=enx000ec689ab9e
$ export NUM_ITERATIONS=10
$ sudo python network_EthernetStressPlug.py $INTERFACE $NUM_ITERATIONS

Tags: linux · kernel · script · collabora · chromiumos