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[3251] Added section to developer guide about packet filters in DHCPv6.

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Marcin Siodelski
2013-12-13 11:19:12 +01:00
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doc/devel/mainpage.dox
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@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
* - @subpage libdhcpRelay
* - @subpage libdhcpIfaceMgr
* - @subpage libdhcpPktFilter
* - @subpage libdhcpPktFilter6
* - @subpage libdhcpsrv
* - @subpage leasemgr
* - @subpage cfgmgr

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@@ -184,5 +184,50 @@ the regular IP/UDP socket. The isc::dhcp::PktFilterInet should be used in all
cases when an application using the libdhcp++ doesn't require sending
DHCP messages to a device which doesn't have an address yet.
@section libdhcpPktFilter6 Switchable Packet Filters for DHCPv6
The DHCPv6 implementation doesn't suffer from the problems described in \ref
libdhcpPktFilter. Therefore, the socket creation and methods used to send
and receive DHCPv6 messages are common for all OSes. However, there is
still a need to customize the operations on the sockets to reliably unit test
the \ref isc::dhcp::IfaceMgr logic.
The \ref isc::dhcp::IfaceMgr::openSockets6 function examines configuration
of detected interfaces for their availability to listen DHCPv6 traffic. For
all running interfaces (except local loopback) it will try to open a socket
and bind it to the link local or global unicast address. The socket will
not be opened on the interface which is down or for which it was explicitly
specified that it should not be used to listen to DHCPv6 messages. There is
a substantial amount of logic in this function that has to be unit tested for
various interface configurations, e.g.:
- multiple interfaces with link-local addresses only
- multiple interfaces, some of them having global unicast addresses,
- multiple interfaces, some of them disabled
- no interfaces
The \ref isc::dhcp::IfaceMgr::openSockets6 function attempts to open
sockets on detected interfaces. At the same time, the number of interfaces,
and their configuration is specific to OS where the tests are being run.
So the test doesn't have any means to configure interfaces for the test case
being run. Moreover, a unit test should not change the configuration of the
system. For example, a change to the configuration of the interface which
is used to access the machine running a test, may effectively break the
access to this machine.
In order to overcome the problem described above, the unit tests use
fake interfaces which can be freely added, configured and removed from the
\ref isc::dhcp::IfaceMgr. Obviously, it is not possible to open a socket
on a fake interface, nor use it to send or receive IP packets. To mimic
socket operations on fake interfaces it is required that the functions
which open sockets, send messages and receive messages have to be
customizable. This is achieved by implementation of replaceable packet
filter objects which derive from the \ref isc::dhcp::PktFilter6 class.
The default implementation of this class is \ref isc::dhcp::PktFilterInet6
which creates a regular datagram IPv6/UDPv6 socket. The unit tests use a
stub implementation isc::dhcp::test::PktFilter6Stub which contains no-op
functions.
Use \ref isc::dhcp::IfaceMgr::setPacketFilter function to set the custom packet
filter object to be used by Interface Manager.
*/