A method for testing the full load of an electrical port of an Ethernet switch

Abstract

The invention provides a method for testing full load of electric ports of an Ethernet switchboard. The method includes steps of subjecting the electric ports of the switchboard to short circuit in pairwise so as to form loop circuits of the electric ports of the switchboard; disconnecting one pair of electric ports of the switchboard, so that one of the pair of electric ports is connected with a network card of a PC (personal computer); restarting the network card of the PC after forbidding, and introducing data switching messages to the electric port connected with the PC; disconnecting the PC and the electric port, restoring short circuit of the disconnected electric port and the electric port connected before, so that a device under testing runs with full load. In the method for testing full load of the electric ports of the Ethernet switchboard, massive data messages are duplicated and transferred and full load of the electric ports of the switchboard is realized by introducing the data messages into the electric ports of the Ethernet switchboard and generating broadcasting messages by the loop circuits of the electric ports of the switchboard. Accordingly, testing efficiency is improved and the testing method is simplified.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of communication networks, in particular to a method for testing the full load of an electrical port of an Ethernet switch. Background technique [0002] In the prior art, the commonly used test models for the full load of the electrical port of the switch are as follows: figure 1 shown. Each electrical port of the device under testing (Device Under Testing, DUT) is denoted as port P1, port P2, ... port Pn in turn. Each port is connected to the port of the test equipment one by one through the RJ45 network cable. Among them, the test equipment can use IXIA or Smartbits instruments to complete the test of traffic transmission and reception, and it is often necessary to configure the layer 2 or layer 3 data flow. For Layer 2 packet forwarding, you need to set the source MAC address and destination MAC address; for Layer 3 packet forwarding, you need to set the source IP address and destination IP address. ...

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[0004] Specifically, for the full-power test in the full-load test model, most engineers who focus on the full-power test do not fully understand the working principle and operation steps of the flow test instrument. When they are performing the full-power test It will take a lot of time to be familiar with the operation of the instrument, which will inevitably affect the efficiency of the full load test

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