Re: [openflow-discuss] Is it possible to open a browser inside Virtual box and mininet topology?

2013-05-05 Thread Chandana Pathapatti
Hello, Is it possible to generate Load/ web traffic using lynx? it worked perfectly fine, using Ip addresses, but even to give a ping command, we have to write it in a python file using an infinite loop. how to do this, when it is a single command like 'lynx http://10.0.0.1'. ? On Fri, Apr 19,

Re: [openflow-discuss] Is it possible to open a browser inside Virtual box and mininet topology?

2013-04-20 Thread Eric Chou
Good idea on FAQ! I just stole the answer from this thread and put it on https://github.com/mininet/mininet/wiki/FAQ#wiki-vm-gui-mininethost with minimal editing. Let me know if it does not look ok. :) Eric On Apr 20, 2013, at 2:33 AM, Murphy McCauley wrote: > Using a graphical browser requ

Re: [openflow-discuss] Is it possible to open a browser inside Virtual box and mininet topology?

2013-04-20 Thread Murphy McCauley
On Apr 20, 2013, at 4:00 PM, Bob Lantz wrote: > Thanks for the workaround for Mininet 2.0.0 - assigning an IP address to the > internal adapter is a crafty idea I have to say. In fact, we should probably > add this to the FAQ (on the Mininet wiki, which everyone is encouraged to > edit)!! The

Re: [openflow-discuss] Is it possible to open a browser inside Virtual box and mininet topology?

2013-04-20 Thread Bob Lantz
Murphy, Thanks for the workaround for Mininet 2.0.0 - assigning an IP address to the internal adapter is a crafty idea I have to say. In fact, we should probably add this to the FAQ (on the Mininet wiki, which everyone is encouraged to edit)!! The current Mininet master branch should (hopefull

Re: [openflow-discuss] Is it possible to open a browser inside Virtual box and mininet topology?

2013-04-20 Thread Eric Chou
Right, got it. Confirm it works for Firefox. Thanks! That is neat. Eric On Apr 20, 2013, at 2:33 AM, Murphy McCauley wrote: > Using a graphical browser requires that you get X11 traffic out of your > Mininet host namespace and into the environment where you actually have an X > display. The

Re: [openflow-discuss] Is it possible to open a browser inside Virtual box and mininet topology?

2013-04-20 Thread Murphy McCauley
Using a graphical browser requires that you get X11 traffic out of your Mininet host namespace and into the environment where you actually have an X display. There are any number of ways you might do this. The way I do it is ugly but relatively easy for me. It's something like the following.

Re: [openflow-discuss] Is it possible to open a browser inside Virtual box and mininet topology?

2013-04-19 Thread Eric Chou
You can install Firefox and use 'sudo firefox &' to launch Firefox, assuming you have set up X forwarding. For mininet, so far I just installed and use Lynx. A quick check is to use Python simple web server: mininet> h1 python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80 & mininet> xterm h2 Then in h2 use 'lynx htt

[openflow-discuss] Is it possible to open a browser inside Virtual box and mininet topology?

2013-04-19 Thread Chandana Pathapatti
Hello, Is it possible to open a browser inside Virtual box and mininet topology? -- Regards, Chandana http://www.sahajmarg.org/sm/why-meditate ___ openflow-discuss mailing list openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/li