Lab#4 Mininet Instructions
Introduction
The Lab#4 Mininet assignment includes two sub labs in the guiding file: Lab 1 and Lab 2.
Download Mininet
There are two ways to install Mininet:
1. Mininet provides a virtual machine with the tools already installed. You can download the whole VM and install on virtual box.
2. (Recommended) Install Mininet on the provided virtual machine through command lines:
3. git clone git://github.com/mininet/mininet
4. mininet/util/install.sh
5. test installation: sudo mn --switch ovsbr --test pingall
6. install iperf3: sudo apt-get install iperf3
For more details please go to the official downloading guild: http://mininet.org/download/ .
Notes
1. To run Miniedit, you can use command line under the directory of mininet: python mininet/examples/miniedit.py
2. In Lab 2, instead of import the Lab2.mn topology file, use the topology you built for Lab 1.
3. In Lab 2, download and install the tool of plot_iperf from link: https://github.com/pengmia o-usc/iperf3_plotter
Submission
Submit one report with screenshots of all the steps in Lab1 and Lab2, including the plots generated in Lab2.