Practical Software-Defined Networking: 3 Learning Mininet

51mBeginner2018-06-13

Authors

David Bombal

Creating content and courses for networking professionals worldwide

Course details

Mininet is a virtual network emulator that supports testing, research, debugging, and other essential tasks. It can also help you experiment with—and, in turn, wrap your head around—software-defined networking and OpenFlow, a network communications protocol. In this course, learn how to get started with Mininet. Explore key Mininet commands—including sudo mn—and learn how to start a web server on a Mininet host. In addition, explore Mininet topologies and learn how to bridge Mininet to the outside world.

Note: This course uses GNS3 for all demonstrations.

Learning objectives
Why Mininet?
Working with Mininet commands
sudo mn
Starting a web server on a Mininet host
Configuring Mininet MAC addresses
Mininet linear, tree, and torus topologies
Bridging Mininet to the outside world
Mininet OpenFlow version

Skills covered

Network AdministrationNetwork and System AdministrationOne-Off

Concepts

1. Mininet Overview

01 - Why Mininet
02 - ONF product certification

2. Mininet Integration with ODL

03 - Download Mininet and import VM

3. Mininet Commands

04 - Mininet help
05 - sudo mn -c
06 - Mininet help (continued)
07 - Mininet commands dump, net, and nod
08 - sudo ovs-vsctl show and sudo ovs-ofctl
09 - sudo ovs-ofctl dump-flows s1
10 - Mininet host commands
11 - Link down, link up
12 - Start a web server on a Mininet host
13 - Configure Mininet MAC addresses

4. Mininet Topologies

14 - Mininet reversed versus single topology
15 - Mininet linear topology
16 - Mininet linear topology - 200 switches
17 - Mininet tree topology
18 - Mininet torus topology
19 - SDN controller GUIs
20 - Mininet x11 forwarding
21 - Mininet -change subnet used --Ipbase
22 - Bridge Mininet to the outside world
23 - sudo ovs-vsctl add-port s1 eth1
24 - Mininet OpenFlow version