How do I use Mininet GUI

How do I use Mininet GUI

Mininet network simulator comes with a python  – based application that provides a simple GUI editor for Mininet .This tool was developed to further expatiate on the extension of Mininet .GUI stands for ( Graphical user interface) is a interface that uses icons , menus and a mouse to manage interaction with system .

Start Mininet GUI

 To get started to use Mininet GUI,

First you need to start the MiniEdit. Where MiniEdit is mininet’s graphical user interface .It is provided by the Mininet package in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu.

The MiniEdit script is located in mininet‘s examples folder. To run MiniEdit execute the following command line,

sudo ~/mininet/examples/miniedit.py

Start Mininet GUI

Create network topology using MiniEdit

    To create network topology using MiniEdit, It required six steps.

   They are,

 Step 1:

     To add some hosts to network scenario, click on the Host icon.

 Step 2:

And then move the pointer to the location on the MiniEdit canvas where you want the

host to appear.

 Step 3:

     Next to add links between the nodes on the canvas, Click on the Netlink tool.

 Step 4:

      Click on a node and drag the link over to another node.     

 Step 5:

      To save the Mininet Topology (*.mn) file, click on file in the top menu bar and select

      save from the drop -down menu.    

  Step 6:

       Type in a file name and save the file.

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