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+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.bookkeeper.server;
+
+import io.netty.channel.epoll.Epoll;
+import io.netty.handler.ssl.OpenSsl;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+import static org.junit.Assume.assumeTrue;
+
+
+public class NettyTest {
+
+  @Test
+  public void epollIsAvailableOnLinux() {
+    assumeTrue("is Linux", SystemUtils.IS_OS_LINUX);
+    Epoll.ensureAvailability();
+    assertTrue(Epoll.isAvailable());
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void boringSslIsAvailable() {
+    OpenSsl.ensureAvailability();
+    assertTrue(OpenSsl.isAvailable());
+    assertEquals(OpenSsl.versionString(), "BoringSSL");
+  }
+}