RFR: JDK-8054118 - java/net/ipv6tests/UdpTest.java failed intermittently

[Chris Hegarty]

Thanks Mark, Reviewed.

-Chris.

P.S. At some point in the future, we should try to create a general test utility library to retrieve suitable network interfaces for tests to use. 

On 7 Aug 2014, at 19:15, Mark Sheppard <mark.sheppard at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  please oblige and review the following fix
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~msheppar/8054118/webrev/
> 
> to address the issue raised in
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8054118
> 
> The Windows test environment has a Teredo interface.
> This oscillates between being configured with IPv6 and not been configured.
> The configured state is transient. When configured its IPv6 is retrieved as
> first local ipv6 address. As such, it can happen that during the test the
> interface is disabled, and the test will fail with the report Socket receive timeout.
> 
> This fix removes the Teredo interface from the testing scenario, so that a more stable interface
> will be used.
> 
> regards
> Mark