The "h2", "h3" host IDs are purely a Mininet thing. If you have three real computers, just log in to each of them (with ssh, or a local console, or whatever) and run iperf.
-- Murphy On Mar 28, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Weiyang Mo wrote: > Sorry to make confusion. I don't use Mininet anymore. I connect my switch to > 3 real computers. So I think the hosts are not h2,h3. > > Thanks > > Weiyang > > 2012/3/28 Murphy McCauley <[email protected]> > This question might be more appropriate for one of the OpenFlow mailing lists > -- Mininet is not part of NOX. > > That said, what do you mean by the host's ID? The IP address? A > straightforward way is to open an xterm on a host (xterm h2), and then just > use ifconfig to see what IP address the adapter has. > > -- Murphy > > On Mar 28, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Weiyang Mo wrote: > >> Hi, all: >> >> I set up the following network. >> >> NOX >> | >> host1--------Prontoswitch------host2 >> | >> host3 >> >> Then I ran the controller provided by OpenFlow tutorial( pytutorial.py >> which just floods the packets). >> >> How can I use xterm(and iperf) to listen for each host's packets? If using >> mininet, the host's ID is simply h2 h3, and we can open xterm using "xterm >> h2 h3". Are there any ways to get the real host's ID? > >
