Mesh testing

[Kim Quirk]

Thanks Bill! Are you in Ottawa where we are sending the laptops for the
Nortel test bed?

Kim

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos <ypod at mit.edu>
wrote:

> Bill Mccormick wrote:
>
> > If nobody else is doing this, I'll volunteer.   It'll be a couple of
> > days though, I'm just starting.
> >
> >
> >
> Awesome! If you do take up this unpleasant, though critical task here are
> my suggestions:
>
> Like I said before, when a user reports that "the network does not work",
> this may be due to a whole lot of reasons. Being able to consistently
> identify which part of the "network stack" (firmware, driver,
> NetworkManager, presence stack) is malfunctioning is not feasible anytime
> soon, so we better make sure that each individual layer is this network
> stack has been thoroughly tested. I would suggest doing so in two
> dimensions: scalability and stability.
>
> Scalability: Making it work on 5 machines is one thing, making it work on
> 50 is another! Please test on as many machines as possible.
>
> Stability: Similarly, we should aim for at some 5 hours of continuous and
> stable operation.
>
> We currently do _not_ meet these requirements and from an activity point
> of view, the network look like an .... omelet rather than distinct yoke and
> white!!!
>
>
>
> Pol
>
> --
> Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
> Graduate student
> Viral Communications
> MIT Media Lab
> Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058
> http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ <http://www.mit.edu/%7Eypod/>
>
>
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