promisc_support Test Suite

Promiscuous mode support test suite.

Test promiscuous support by sending a packet with a different destination mac address from the TG to the SUT.

class TestPromiscSupport

Bases: TestSuite

Promiscuous mode support test suite.

ALTERNATIVE_MAC_ADDRESS: str = '02:00:00:00:00:00'

Alternate MAC address.

test_promisc_packets() → None

Verify that promiscuous mode works.

Steps:

Create a packet with a different mac address to the destination. Enable promiscuous mode. Send and receive packet. Disable promiscuous mode. Send and receive packet.

Verify:

Packet sent with the wrong address is received in promiscuous mode and filtered out otherwise.