February 2016

Using the OpenDaylight SDN Controller with the Mininet Network Emulator

February 28, 2016 - Network Simulation, Open Source Networking

OpenDaylight (ODL) is a popular open-source SDN controller framework. To learn more about OpenDaylight, it is helpful to use it to manage an emulated network of virtual switches and virtual hosts. Most people use the Mininet network emulator to create a virtual SDN network for OpenDaylight to control. In this post, I will show how […]

Saving a Cloonix network topology

February 10, 2016 - Network Simulation

The Cloonix network simulator has been updated to version 29, which adds the ability to save network simulation topologies and node configurations to a directory. Users may save a network topology and all node configurations to a directory of their choice. They may also load saved topologies into Cloonix so they can restore a network