Make Consomme TCP validation deterministic
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Since Sep 15, 2026.
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Description
Tracking issue: MicroVM support and private snapshot restore.
Motivation
Networking identity, admission limits, and snapshot reconstruction need tests that
can distinguish a protocol regression from host scheduling or timing variation.
Deterministic Consomme TCP fixtures would make those changes easier to review and
keep failure diagnostics reproducible across Windows and Linux.
Proposed Scope
- Drive TCP test inputs, event ordering, and timeout progression explicitly where
the test harness permits it. - Remove reliance on incidental wall-clock timing or external network services
from the targeted fixtures. - Assert observable protocol transitions and emitted packets instead of only
checking that a test finishes. - Keep fixture changes separate from new networking policies or runtime features.
Acceptance Criteria
- Repeated runs produce the same protocol observations for the same input.
- Focused coverage exercises connection establishment, data transfer, and
termination, including the targeted timeout or failure paths. - Tests do not require access to an external network service or sleeps chosen
to mask races. - The targeted suite passes on Windows and Linux, with useful diagnostics for
unexpected packets or state transitions. - Production TCP semantics are unchanged by the fixture work.
Dependencies
No feature prerequisites. These fixtures support later Consomme identity and
resource-admission tests.
Non-Goals
Static addressing, egress policy, flow limits, and network snapshot persistence
are separate issues.
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