AP (access point) positioning method and device

Abstract

The invention provides an AP positioning method and a corresponding device of the AP positioning method and is applied to network management equipment. The method comprises the following steps of step A, obtaining a network device which learns the MAC (media access control) address of an AP and adding the network device to a first set; step B, determining whether an interface of the network device in the first set, which connects the AP to the web, and an interface of the network device, which is oriented to a preset reference device, are the same interface, if so, ignoring the network device; if not, adding the network device to a second set; step C, screening a network device with an AP direct-connection interface out from the network devices in the second set as a network device directly connected with the AP. Compared with existing schemes, the AP positioning method and device does not relates to repeated relevant data reading from the AC, so that easier implementation can be achieved and the reliability is greatly improved.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of data communication, in particular to an AP positioning method and device. Background technique [0002] Wireless local area network (WLAN) technology is a popular technology in the field of communication today. This technology has been widely used in various industries due to its low cost, easy deployment and easy operation. It has more or less affected and changed us. life. The widespread deployment of WLAN also brings some problems, especially the maintenance and management of related equipment. How to find a WLAN device that needs to be maintained and managed among various network devices is the primary problem that needs to be solved. On a WLAN network, the most widely deployed or the largest number of devices are wireless access points (APs). To manage and maintain the AP, it is necessary to locate the location of the AP. [0003] With the maturity of distributed deployment technology, a large numb...

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[0007] However, there are some obvious flaws in such a technical solution

[0008] First of all, since the STAs connected to a Fit AP change dynamically, for the accuracy of the judgment, the above solution needs to go to the AC to re-obtain relevant information every time a switch is selected for judgment, which will obviously increase the processing burden of the AC. , originally the AC undertakes many STA wireless access processing tasks, and is the core node of wireless access. Increasing its burden will have a greater impact on STA access to the network

[0009] Secondly, the update speed of STA information is usually faster than the aging speed of switch interface MAC learning, which may lead to incomplete judgment and abnormal results.

[0010] Finally, if there is another switch between this switch and the AP that has not been added to the network management for management, obviously the remaining MAC address after subtraction is not only the MAC address of the Fit AP, and the above method will not be able to obtain the result.

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