Setting up the test machines

The test laboratory for network adapter drivers must include:

• At least two machines, designated ``master'' and ``slave''.

• The device being tested with its associated driver must be installed on the master machine. The slave machine must have networking enabled, but can use the device and driver being tested or a device and driver that is known to work.

• These machines should not be production machines, because driver errors uncovered during testing may destroy data on the systems.

• They should be installed on a private local area net that is not part of a larger network setup; the traffic generated by the automated tests may cause network errors and will degrade performance on a larger network.

Install the drivers to be used for testing before installing the test suite package, so that the test suites are configured to use the driver being tested.