Background

The LANforge InterOp solution of Candela technologies are used to support real clients for testing Access Points. InterOp gives the ease of handling real clients with complete automation and populate a detailed reports on the entire duration of the test.

We have support for various kinds of real clients:

-      Android clients.
-      iOS clients.
-      Windows Machines.
-      Linux Machines.
-      MacOS Machines.

Network Topology:

Before getting started:

• The LANforge Manager this MacOS machine will be clustered with must be in clustering mode. That includes configuring the realm, mode, and resource number of the manager, as well as having the right licenses. Please verify you have the correct licenses and follow this cookbook to set your manager up.

• All applications requiring internet for installation should be installed before starting the LANforge server.

  MacOS Device Initial Setup

1. Open the MacOS settings application.

2. Navigate to sharing settings under general settings. Enable screen sharing and remote login. Also allow VNC viewers to login with a password. This allows the machine to be managed with VNC and/or SSH.

3. Navigate to Energy settings. Enable start up automatically after a power failure. Should the machine experience a loss of power, you will need to physically power the machine on without this setting.

Steps to install LANforge Server on MacOS machine

1. Open a new terminal.

2. Type in the command: sudo su – root to become root user.

3. Type into the terminal:

   1. curl -o lf_kinstall.pl https://www.candelatech.com/lf_kinstall.pl

   Then, press enter. This command downloads Candela's server installation script.

   

   2. chmod a+x lf_kinstall.pl

   Then, press enter. This command give permissions and set proper bits.

   

   3. ./lf_kinstall.pl --do_all_ct --lfver 5.4.6**

   Then, press enter. This command runs the server installation script we downloaded above (with the proper arguments).

   

4. Type in the terminal: cd /Users/lanforge and press enter. Then, type in: ./lfconfig and press enter. These 2 commands change terminal to /Users/lanforge and run the command to configure LANforge realms.

5. Specify your lanforge ip manager and press enter. Below is the example of specifying manager 192.168.200.239

connect_mgr 192.168.200.239:4002

8. Specify your realm id and press enter. Below is command example of specifying realm 41.

realm 41

9. Set a resource number for your laptop. This is any resource number that is already used. Below is an example of using resource 44. Press enter after the command is typed.

resource 44

10. Give mode as resource to act the Mac laptop as resource using the command below. Then press enter.

mode resource

11. Type in config and enter to save changes.

12. Start the lanforge server by typing in ./serverctl.bash start and pressing enter.

After starting the LANforge server, go to the Lanforge GUI Port Mgr tab to find your MacOS machine clustered.

Resource Mgr tab will also show the laptop and the resource id that was given earlier above to the MacOS machine.

Now en0 port can be used as station of laptop wiphy radio and run traffic.