Nearly every operating system virtualizes computing resources using a process abstraction. Mininet uses process-based virtualization to run many (we’ve successfully booted up to 4096) hosts and switches on a single OS kernel. Since version 2.2.26, Linux has supported network namespaces, a lightweight virtualization feature that provides individual processes with separate network interfaces, routing tables, and ARP tables. The full Linux container architecture adds chroot() jails, process and user namespaces, and CPU and memory limits to provide full OS-level virtualization, but Mininet does not require these additional features. Mininet can create kernel or user-space OpenFlow switches, controllers to control the switches, and hosts to communicate over the simulated network. Mininet connects switches and hosts using virtual ethernet (veth) pairs. While Mininet currently depends on the Linux kernel, in the future it may support other operating systems with process-based virtualization, such Solaris containers or !FreeBSD jails.
Mininet’s code is almost entirely Python, except for a short C utility.
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