Mininet is a network emulation platform that makes it quick, easy and fun to create virtual networks on a single machine, and to do cool stuff with OpenFlow and Software-Defined Networks: give a live demo from your laptop, interactively develop a new network application, automate tests across many topologies, or download and try out a new network system. Since Mininet is based on Linux and OpenFlow, designs move seamlessly between Mininet, for easy development and experimentation, and hardware, for line-rate operation and deployment. In the last three years, the Mininet community has grown from a few users at Stanford University to an active mailing list with over 500 members in academia, startups, and industry.
Version 2 (“HiFi”) is a major upgrade that expands Mininet's scope from functional testing (“does my network control plane work?”) to performance testing (“how well does my custom congestion control perform with 10 Mb/s links?”). New APIs allow you to create links with specified bandwidths, latencies and loss rates, and to limit the CPU usage of virtual hosts. Using these new features, 37 students in Stanford University’s Advanced Topics in Networking course (CS244) replicated 16 published research experiments; you’re encouraged to browse their stories athttp://reproducingnetworkresearch.wordpress.com/ [The Reproducing Network Research Blog]. This release also includes many bug fixes and improvements including easier and faster native installations, Ubuntu packages, the ability to use the latest Open vSwitch packages, dynamic link reconnection, a more flexible command line, and online API documentation at our brand-new web site, mininet.github.com . For more details, check out the blog post at http://mininet.github.com/blog/2012/11/27/announcing-mininet-2-dot-0-0/ . If you're interested in the internals of the new features, check out our paper to be presented at CoNEXT ‘12 shortly ( http://stanford.edu/~jvimal/papers/mininet-conext12.pdf ). This is the first version produced with the generous support of the Open Networking Laboratory ( http://onlab.us ). Thanks to all the code contributors, bug reporters, and active users who helped make this release possible! The Mininet Team Bob Lantz (ON.lab) Brandon Heller (Stanford University) Nikhil Handigol (Stanford University) Vimalkumar Jeyakumar (Stanford University) _______________________________________________ openflow-discuss mailing list openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss
