Environment Setup

The following instruction will guide you through how to set up the environment for the programming assignment on Ubuntu. We also provide an Amazon EC2 AMI image with everything set up for people would like to run the lab on EC2 (ami-96139ba6 at Oregon Region). You can find instruction on how to use EC2 AMI image below.

Use Your Own Ubuntu Machine

Install Needed Tools

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git vim-nox python-setuptools flex bison traceroute

Install Mininet

cd ~
git clone git://github.com/mininet/mininet
cd mininet
git checkout remotes/origin/class/cs244
./util/install.sh -fnv

Install POX

cd ~
git clone http://github.com/noxrepo/pox

Install ltprotocol

cd ~
git clone git://github.com/dound/ltprotocol.git
cd ltprotocol 
sudo python setup.py install

Use Amazon EC2

The assignments only require t1.micro, which Amazon provides 750 free usage hours per month.

Launch an Instance with the provided AMI Image

• Go to AWS Console
• Switch to "Oregon" region, you can do so by pull down the region menu on the upper-right corner. The default is N. Virginia.
• Click on "Launch an instance", then choose "Classic Wizard"
• On the "Community AMIs", search for "ami-96139ba6". You should see an image with the Manifest of "Mininet_assignments".
• Select the image, then keep clicking "Continue" on the next few page, until the page ask you to select your key pairs.
• Choose the key pair you would like to login to your EC2 instance, then click on "Continue".
• At the final page, you can find an "Launch" button. Click it and you are done!
• Then use your key pair to login to your EC2 instance.

> ssh -Y -i <Your KeyPair> ubuntu@<your EC2 domain name>

The Image contains the starter code for all the assignments.