Need reviewer for 6898234: (dc) Multicast tests fail on OpenSolaris with vboxnet0 adapter

[Alan Bateman]

Christopher Hegarty -Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> I don't have a problem with this change.
>
> I wonder if some of these failures are dependent on the configuration 
> of the guest OSes in VirtualBox? That is, NAT, bridged, Host-only, 
> etc... What I'm getting at here is will the IP address always be 0.0.0.0?
>
> -Chris.
It's hard to write good multicast tests that don't require any 
configuration. All we can do is filter the "obvious" cases (such as 
interface that aren't up or don't support multicast). For these pseudo 
interface then it's very possible/likely that they will be plumbed with 
IPv4 or IPv6 address, in which case these tests will exercise them. For 
default setups where the interface appears to be plumbed with 0.0.0.0 
then it's okay/safe to ignore the interface. Any further probing would 
require additional support in the API or in the test suite.

-Alan.