Method and device for testing performance of access controller

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a method and device for testing performance of an AC. The method and device are used for solving the problems that in the prior art, a large amount of manpower and a large number of material resources are consumed by a mode for testing of the performance of the AC, and difficulty in meeting the testing requirement is high. The method for testing the performance of the AC comprises the steps that a plurality of virtual hosts are established, wherein each virtual host serves as a virtual AP or a virtual STA, and each virtual host comprises a virtual network interface card and a virtual host thread; the performance of the AC is tested through information transmission between at least one virtual AP and the AC and information transmission between at least one virtual STA and the AC. By the adoption of the method and device for testing the performance of the AC, due to the facts that the virtual APs and the virtual STAs can be established on only one PC, and real APs and real STAs are replaced with the virtual APs and the virtual STAs, a large amount of manpower and a large number of financial resources can be saved, and the test difficulty can be greatly reduced.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of communication technology, in particular to a method and device for testing the performance of an access controller. Background technique [0002] With the rapid development of communication technology, wireless local area network (WLAN, Wireless Local Area Network) is becoming more and more popular, and the traditional WLAN has gradually exposed a series of problems, such as the lack of centralized control and management functions, security problems, etc., so centralized WLAN networking Architecture came into being. The centralized WLAN system introduces the access controller (AC, Access Controller) to share the management, control, authentication and other functions of the traditional "fat" AP (Access Point, access point). The "thin" AP with simplified functions is mainly used to receive and send wireless network data. [0003] As an access controller, the AC centrally manages a large number of APs, and there ar...

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[0005] The embodiment of the present invention provides a method and device for testing AC performance, which is used to solve the problem that the way of testing AC performance in the prior art consumes a lot of manpower and financial resources, and it is difficult to meet the test requirements

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