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Using oflops within mininet

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Difficulty
4/5
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Issue type
Documentation
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Needs clarification
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Tech stack
c, ubuntu
Domain
documentation, networking

Research direction

Start with the oflops help page and the documented Mininet command shown in the issue. Determine the steps needed to initiate oflops against the OVS switch in the single, three-host topology, then document a reproducible procedure and how to tell that the test has started successfully.

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Description

Hey guys,

I am New to mininet.
I am working with mininet and ryu controller on ubuntu 14.04 for my university research.
I need to run oflops, but I could not follow the help page.
I started my mininet topology by following command,
sudo mn --controller=remote --switch=ovs --topo=single,3

my interfaces looks like following at this point:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 08:00:27:38:54:10 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.23/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 08:00:27:7d:3d:19 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
6: ovs-system: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default
    link/ether be:cc:e5:24:03:72 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
14: s1-eth1@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master ovs-system state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 1e:68:ad:b6:2d:40 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
15: s1-eth2@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master ovs-system state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 2e:98:1c:35:96:ad brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
16: s1-eth3@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master ovs-system state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 6e:ab:f2:88:a3:35 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
17: s1: <BROADCAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default
    link/ether 8e:7d:4c:45:55:49 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Now how do I initiate oflops from oflops for testing the OVS switch that's part of the mininet topology ?

Thanks

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