Documentation

Mininet Documentation

Getting Started With Mininet: The Basics

1. Download Download and run Mininet - in a Virtual Machine (VM) or natively
2. VM Setup Notes Configure your Mininet VM after you've downloaded it
3. Walkthrough Start up and run Mininet
4. OpenFlow Tutorial Use Mininet to learn about OpenFlow and SDN
5. Introduction to Mininet Learn to use Mininet's Python API

Next Steps: Check out Mininet examples

6. Look at some example Mininet scripts
7. Try some realistic network experiments with Mininet

Additional Mininet Documentation and FAQ

• Mininet Python API Reference
• Viewing/Generating the Mininet API Reference (it's very easy!)
• Publications Informative Mininet papers, technical reports and presentations
• FAQ Please read and add to the Frequently Asked Questions (and their Answers)
• VM Creation Notes How we created the Mininet VM image

Teaching Computer Networking with Mininet

• Environment Setup Work on assignments on your own computer or Amazon EC2
• Assignments Use Mininet to teach or learn about computer networks
• Reproducible Network Research with Mininet

Bug Reports and Feature Requests

• Bugs How to submit bug reports
• Feature Requests How to request and implement features

Other Mininet Extensions, Tools, and Packages

• Mininet Community Extensions and Packages Additional useful packages created by members of the Mininet community

Other Documents

• Introduction to Mininet A brief introduction to Mininet, by Prof. William ES Yu of the Ateneo University of Manila
• The Mininet Approach to Network Research and Prototyping Principles that have guided Mininet's design
• Mininet Project Ideas - Proposed Mininet features for Google Summer of Code or other projects
• Futures A few (mostly older) thoughts on future Mininet features/futures
• Mininet 2.0.0 Testing Plan and Projects
• Mininet Documentation Plan