Exercises dc

Exercise I: Data Centers

(30P) Warmup (simple Tree) ($ => commands on VM, > => commands on mininet/pox, Q => Question)

  $ sudo mn --topo tree,3 --mac --arp --switch ovsk --controller remote
  mininet> h1 ping h8 

• • (Q: What do you observe?)

  $ ./pox/pox.py
  mininet> h1 ping h8 

• • (Q: What do you observe?)

  $ ./pox/pox.py samples.spanning_tree 
  mininet> h1 ping h8 

• • (Q: What do you observe?)

(40P) Create your own simple tree (binary, i.e. each node will connect to two nodes below it)

• • copy dcsimple.py ([1]) to mininet/custom/
  • modify dcsimple.py to create hosts, switches and connections for a three level tree

  $ sudo mn --custom dcsimple.py --topo simple

• • Check with ping

(30P) Create your own Fattree

• • copy dcfat.py ([2]) to mininet/custom/
  • modify dcfat.py to create a fat tree (level 0: so & s1, level 1: s2 & s3, level 2: s4, s5, s6, s7, Level 3: Hosts)

  $ sudo mn --custom dcfat.py --topo fat

• • check with ping

  $ sudo mn --custom dcfat.py --topo fat --controller remote
  $ ./pox/pox.py samples.spanning_tree

• • check with ping