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Load-balancing modes – H3C Technologies H3C WX3000E Series Wireless Switches User Manual

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Figure 746 Requirement of WLAN load-balancing implementation

Load-balancing modes

The AC supports two load balancing modes: session mode and traffic mode.

Session mode load-balancing:
Session-mode load balancing is based on the number of clients associated with the AP/radio.
As shown in

Figure 468

, Client 1 is associated with AP 1, and Client 2 through Client 6 are

associated with AP 2. The AC has session-mode load balancing configured: the maximum number

of sessions is 5, and the maximum session gap is 4. Then, Client 7 sends an association request

to AP 2. The maximum session threshold and session gap have been reached on AP 2, so AP 2
rejects the request. Finally, Client 7 associates with AP 1.

Figure 747 Network diagram for session-mode load balancing

Traffic mode load-balancing