NAME

ncStateByRa4Incomplete - Verifying State Machine: RA vs. INCOMPLETE

TARGET

Host only

SYNOPSIS

  ncStateByRa4Incomplete.seq [-tooloption ...] -p ncStateByRa4Incomplete.def

INITIALIZATION

Set the state of neighbor cache entry to INCOMPLETE.

  TN               NUT
  ----------------------

  State: NONCE (for TN)

  ==== echo-request ===>
        src=TN's link-local
        dst=NUT's link-local

  State: INCOMPLETE (for TN)

TEST PROCEDURE

ncStateByRa4Incomplete verifies that state transition for NUT in INCOMPLETE state when receiving a RA.

  TN               NUT
  ----------------------


  State: INCOMPLETE (for TN)


  ==== RA ===>
      src=TN's link
      dst=all-node
      RouterLifetime=600
      ReachableTime=0
      RetransTimer=0
      M=0, O=0
      w/o or w/ TLLA


  Judgment: Examining NUT's neighbor cache state

JUDGMENT


6.3.4.  Processing Received Router Advertisements


   After extracting information from the fixed part of the Router
   Advertisement message, the advertisement is scanned for valid
   options.  If the advertisement contains a Source Link-Layer Address
   option the link-layer address SHOULD be recorded in the Neighbor
   Cache entry for the router (creating an entry if necessary) and the
   IsRouter flag in the Neighbor Cache entry MUST be set to TRUE.  If no
   Source Link-Layer Address is included, but a corresponding Neighbor
   Cache entry exists, its IsRouter flag MUST be set to TRUE.  The
   IsRouter flag is used by Neighbor Unreachability Detection to
   determine when a router changes to being a host (i.e., no longer
   capable of forwarding packets).  If a Neighbor Cache entry is created
   for the router its reachability state MUST be set to STALE as
   specified in Section 7.3.3.  If a cache entry already exists and is
   updated with a different link-layer address the reachability state
   MUST also be set to STALE.

  ====================+====================================+===============
  RA                  | Neighbor Cache                     | Comment
  ------------+-------+------------+-----------+-----------+---------------
  Destination | TLLA  | Current    | New       | LLA       |
  ============+=======+============+===========+===========+===============
  all-node    | none  | INCOMPLETE | unchanged | unchanged | Not mentioned
              |       |            |           |           | in RFC2461
  ------------+-------+------------+-----------+-----------+---------------
  all-node    | exist | INCOMPLETE | STALE     | updated   |
  ============+=======+============+===========+===========+===============

TERMINATION

N/A

NOTE

  The test does not invoke any remote command.