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85 lines
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Mininet: A Simple Virtual Testbed for OpenFlow
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aka
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How to Squeeze a 1024-node OpenFlow Network onto your Laptop
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(Extremely Experimental Development Version 0.1, December 2009)
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Mininet creates simple OpenFlow test networks by using process-based
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virtualization and network namespaces.
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Simulated hosts (as well as switches and controllers with the user
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datapath) are created as processes in separate network namespaces. This
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allows a complete OpenFlow network to be simulated on top of a single
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Linux kernel.
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In order to run Mininet, you must have:
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* A Linux 2.6.26 or greater kernel compiled with network namespace support
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enabled. (Debian 5.0 or greater should work.)
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* The OpenFlow reference implementation (either the user or kernel
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datapath may be used, and the tun or ofdatapath kernel modules must be
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loaded, respectively)
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* Python, Bash, etc.
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* Root privilieges (required for network device access)
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* The netns program or equivalent (included as netns.c) installed
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in an appropriate path location.
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* mininet.py installed in an appropriate Python path location.
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Currently mininet includes:
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- A simple node infrastructure (Host, Switch, Controller classes) for
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creating virtual OpenFlow networks.
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- A simple network infrastructure (class Network and its descendants
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TreeNet, GridNet and LinearNet) for creating scalable topologies and
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running experiments (using someNetwork.run( test ) )
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- Some simple tests which can be run using someNetwork.run( test )
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- A simple command-line interface which may be invoked on a network using
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.run( Cli )
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- Examples (in examples/ directory) to help you get started.
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Notes and Advice:
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For scalable configurations, you may need to increase some of your kernel
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limits. For example, you could add something like the following to
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/etc/sysctl.conf:
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# OpenFlow: get rid of ipv6
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net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
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net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
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# Mininet: Increase open file limit
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fs.file-max = 100000
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# Mininet: increase network buffer space
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net.core.wmem_max = 16777216
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net.core.rmem_max = 16777216
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net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 10240 87380 16777216
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net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 10240 87380 16777216
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net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 5000
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# Mininet: increase arp cache size
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net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh1 = 4096
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net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh2 = 8192
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net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh3 = 16384
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# Mininet .... and increase routing table size
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net.ipv4.route.max_size=32768
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Bob Lantz
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rlantz@cs.stanford.edu
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