Lab#4 Mininet

Description

Introduction

In this lab, we’ll investigate the behavior of the celebrated TCP protocol in detail

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.