selftests: forwarding: add helper for retrieving IPv6 link-local address of interface
authorVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Fri, 22 Apr 2022 10:15:01 +0000 (13:15 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 23 Apr 2022 11:18:16 +0000 (12:18 +0100)
Pinging an IPv6 link-local multicast address selects the link-local
unicast address of the interface as source, and we'd like to monitor for
that in tcpdump.

Add a helper to the forwarding library which retrieves the link-local
IPv6 address of an interface, to make that task easier.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh

index 15fb46b..5386c82 100755 (executable)
@@ -868,6 +868,15 @@ mac_get()
        ip -j link show dev $if_name | jq -r '.[]["address"]'
 }
 
+ipv6_lladdr_get()
+{
+       local if_name=$1
+
+       ip -j addr show dev $if_name | \
+               jq -r '.[]["addr_info"][] | select(.scope == "link").local' | \
+               head -1
+}
+
 bridge_ageing_time_get()
 {
        local bridge=$1