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Add supported OSs/kernels
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ice799 committed Apr 23, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ it turns out that a lot (but certainly not all) of testing in this area is focus


i wanted a way to test for strange bugs in different network configurations to detect weird bugs before shipping to customers (see also: http://blog.boundary.com/2012/04/04/a-deep-dive-to-find-a-nasty-bug/). khial helps to do this, beacuse you can ask khial to create several test devices and assign them various IP addresses, MAC addresses, and so on. i wanted a way to test for strange bugs in different network configurations to detect weird bugs before shipping to customers (see also: http://blog.boundary.com/2012/04/04/a-deep-dive-to-find-a-nasty-bug/). khial helps to do this, beacuse you can ask khial to create several test devices and assign them various IP addresses, MAC addresses, and so on.


### supported operating systems and kernels

khial has been tested on:

- 64bit Ubuntu 10.04 2.6.32-40-generic #87 SMP

other operating systems may require modifications to the source for the driver to work properly.

### how to build, load, and unload ### how to build, load, and unload


you will need to follow the directions for building kernel modules on your linux distribution. usually, you'll just need to install some sort of kernel header file package (on Ubuntu, it might be called something like linux-headers-$(uname -r)). you will need to follow the directions for building kernel modules on your linux distribution. usually, you'll just need to install some sort of kernel header file package (on Ubuntu, it might be called something like linux-headers-$(uname -r)).
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