March 2015

Install Mininet on an Amazon EC2 server

March 8, 2015 - Network Simulation

To install the Mininet SDN network simulator on a remote server running on Amazon’s EC2 cloud, follow the procedure shown below. After installing it, I did some basic tests and it seems that Mininet works well on the Amazon EC2 server.

Control an Amazon EC2 server from an Apple iPad using SSH and VNC

March 2, 2015 - Network Simulation

I recently configured an Amazon EC2 instance so that I could run the XFCE desktop environment on it and control it from my local laptop computer using SSH and VNC. But what if I want to use my iPad to do control the remote Amazon EC2 server? I want to experiment with complex network simulations