Mininet

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Mininet is a network emulator for building and experimenting with networks of virtual hosts, switches, and links on a single Linux machine. Because it uses network namespaces and virtual Ethernet devices, the real Linux network stack and applications run unmodified. It integrates with OpenFlow controllers, is widely used in SDN research and education, and defines topologies with a Python API.

See also

• Network Simulator
• NS-3
• tcpdump

Favorite site

• http://www.mininet.org