Description:
Mininet is an emulator of a network used to visualize the switches and application of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) in virtualized circumstances. Mininet hosts run on standard Linux network software, and its switches support OpenFlow for highly and tremendously flexible custom routing.
To install Mininet on a PC, the user can follow this manual, which provides instructions for installing Mininet using Linux distributions.
1. Install Ubuntu Server on a VM.
2. Update the Ubuntu Server on VM.
3. Install the required software.
4. Install the Mininet from the given source code.
Don’t install mininet on your host PC. Install in a very virtual machine.
Open a New Terminal
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Install git. Git is the computer code version system employed by the mininet project.
$ sudo apt-get install git
Use git to download the mininet source code.
$ git clone https://github.com/mininet/mininet
It creates a folder within the home directory named mininet that contains the project file structure.
To find the newest beta version of mininet, list all labeled releases within the mininet project.
Above, we tend to see the most recently offered beta unharness is a pair of 2.3.1b1. So we tend to switch to its branch on our virtual machine.
$ git checkout -b 2.3.1b1
Switched to a new branch ‘2.3.1b1’.
The mininet project provides an install script. Run the script.
This may install mininet 2.3.1b1 because the script victimizes the files within the mininet 2.3.1b1 branch.
$ ~/mininet/util/install.sh -a
After the script stops running, check that the installation is productive. Execute the subsequent command to check the installation. It ought to run a brief mininet state of affairs with success.
$ sudo mn --test pingall
After productive installation, check the configuration of the controller, switches, and hosts with the default examples within the mininet package.
