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Linux network corruption

Linux network corruption injects chaos to disrupt network connectivity on a Linux machine by corrupting the network requests.

Linux network corruption

Use cases​

  • Induces network corruption on the target Linux machines.
  • Simulates network corruption by corrupting requests of the machine.
note
  • This fault can be executed on Ubuntu 16 or higher, Debian 10 or higher, CentOS 7 or higher, RHEL 7 or higher, Fedora 30 or higher, and openSUSE LEAP 15.4 or higher.
  • The linux-chaos-infrastructure systemd service should be in an active state, and the infrastructure should be in CONNECTED state.

Fault permissions​

The fault uses the root Linux user and root user group.

Fault tunables​

Mandatory tunables

Tunable Description Notes
networkInterfaces Network interfaces to target as comma separated values. For example: eth0,ens192

Optional tunables

Tunable Description Notes
destinationHosts List of the target host names or keywords. For example. google.com,litmuschaos.io If neither destinationHosts nor destinationIPs is provided, all host names/domains are targeted
destinationIPs List of the target IPs. For example: 1.1.1.1,8.8.8.8 If neither destinationHosts nor destinationIPs is provided, all host names/domains are targeted
packetCorruptionPercentage Percentage of packets to corrupt. For example: 50 Default: 100%
duration Duration through which chaos is injected into the target resource (in seconds). Default: 30s
rampTime Period to wait before and after injecting chaos (in seconds). Default: 0s

Destination hosts​

The destinationHosts input variable subjects the comma-separated target host names to chaos.

The following YAML snippet illustrates the use of this environment variable:

apiVersion: litmuchaos.io/v1alpha1
kind: LinuxFault
metadata:
  name: linux-network-corruption
  labels:
    name: network-corruption
spec:
  networkChaos/inputs:
    destinationHosts: 'google.com'
    networkInterfaces: "eth0"

Destination IPs​

The destinationIPs input variable subjects the comma-separated names of target IPs to chaos.

The following YAML snippet illustrates the use of this environment variable:

apiVersion: litmuchaos.io/v1alpha1
kind: LinuxFault
metadata:
  name: linux-network-corruption
  labels:
    name: network-corruption
spec:
  networkChaos/inputs:
    destinationIPs: '1.1.1.1'
    networkInterfaces: "eth0"

Packet corruption percentage​

The packetCorruptionPercentage input variable corrupts a specific percentage of data packets.

The following YAML snippet illustrates the use of this environment variable:

apiVersion: litmuchaos.io/v1alpha1
kind: LinuxFault
metadata:
  name: linux-network-corruption
  labels:
    name: network-corruption
spec:
  networkChaos/inputs:
    packetCorruptionPercentage: '50'
    networkInterfaces: "eth0"