How to stepwise build a Mininet-enabled virtual switch
In this section, we will follow a basic stepwise procedure to build our first Mininet virtual lab.
Step 1 - Downloading
Download Mininet from http://mininet.org/download/.
To start your journey with Mininet, download the Mininet virtual machine files from http://mininet.org/download/.
There are three ways to build Mininet, as follows:
- Using the prebuilt virtual machine, download Mininet from the mininet.org website.
This is the easiest option; the prepackaged virtual machine includes a fully tested Mininet application running on a light Ubuntu server.
- Download and compile Mininet from the source.
This option would be good if you don't have resources to load a virtual machine. Say you want to use Mininet on Amazon AWS. To download the Mininet source code, follow the steps provided in GitHub and use the installer script to install and build it.
- Build it using the Mininet packages on Ubuntu.
This option works only on Ubuntu. Depending on the version...
