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

[Mark Sheppard]

thanks Chris

On 07/08/2014 19:20, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> 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