The next generation Internet protocol and its test
Jun Tian, Zhongcheng Li · 2002
IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, has been seen as the best solution for the problems that current Internet protocol faced. In this paper, IPv6 is introduced, including main benefits of IPv6 and the transition mechanism from IPv4 to IPv6. In order to assure the new protocol implementation to be consistent to the standard and in turn to assure the interoperability between different IPv6 implementations, IPv6 protocol conformance test is required. The performance process of an IPv6 conformance test tool that was developed to test IPv6 protocol is introduced, and a formal specification language is used to describe the test suite. With the test tool and test suite, we test the IPv6 General Specification Protocol and ICMPv6 on a Linux IPv6 implementation and give the test report.