Flexconnect local switching on C9800CL and CW9166

[PriyaKB]

Is a L3 switch mandatory for flexconnect local switch to test iperf throughput between wifi client traffic and iperf server?

Can it be achieved using any means on host machine running C9800 cl VM without a physical switch in between?

[MHM Cisco World]

Local or central you need SVI but it location if local then SVI in SW that ap connect to.

[PriyaKB]

Thanks for the response. I do not have a physical L3 switch iny setup. Can this be achieved using Openvswitch (ovs) in Linux host ?

[marce1000]

 - How do you expect to test flexconnect local switching performance without an AP doing that and a client connecting to it ?

 M.

[Rich R]

Like @marce1000 I'm confused about what you are trying to do?
You connect a wireless client to an AP which bridges the traffic to a VLAN.  If you don't have any layer 3 device then your client will not have any connectivity - end of story.  You need a layer 3 device of some sort to provide default gateway and DHCP for that client normally.

But if you allow the client to use a static IP (and DHCP required disabled on the WLAN) then creating any server which could run iperf on the same VLAN as the client using the same subnet then you could test between the client and server IPs.  Where and how you configure that server is irrelevant as long as it's in the same VLAN as the client.