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How to setup SDN Test bed:

OS: Ubuntu 16.04.04 LTS

As first step, please run this command.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install git gcc python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev python-pip

At the time of writing, Ubuntu 16.04 official repository has the stable releases for the tools as,

Tool Name       Version
*************************
Openvswitch :     2.5.2 
Wireshark   :     2.2.6
IPERF       :     2.0.5

Mininet will be installed from the script, and RYU will be installed using PIP.

Tool Name      Version
*************************
Mininet   :     2.2.2
RYU       :     4.23

1.Openvswitch Installation

sudo apt-get install openvswitch-switch

To verify :

ovs-vsctl --version

2.Wireshark Installation

sudo apt-get install wireshark

To verify :

sudo wireshark &

3.IPERF installation

sudo apt-get install iperf

To verify :

iperf --version

4.RYU installation

sudo pip install ryu

To verify :

ryu-manager --version

5.Mininet Installation

The default mininet install option installs openvswitch, wireshark, pox, ryu, nox ,openflow reference implemenation, etc. we dont require all these packages now. So we specify the option(-n) to install only mininet.

git clone git://github.com/mininet/mininet
cd mininet
git tag
git checkout 2.2.2
cd ..
mininet/util/install.sh --help
mininet/util/install.sh -n

To verify :

sudo mn --version

Quick Verify:

Open 4 Terminals:

  1. In Terminal1,
sudo wireshark &

And start the capture for any interface.

  1. In Terminal2,
ryu-manager ryu.app.simple_switch_13
  1. In Terminal3,
sudo mn --controller=remote,ip=127.0.0.1 --mac --switch=ovsk,protocols=OpenFlow13 --topo=single,4 
pingall
  1. In Terminal 4,
sudo ovs-vsctl show

sudo ovs-ofctl -O OpenFlow13 dump-flows s1
  1. check the openflow messages in wireshark

References:

https://osrg.github.io/ryu/

http://ryu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html

http://mininet.org/

https://iperf.fr/

https://www.wireshark.org

https://www.openvswitch.org/