How to stepwise build a Mininet-enabled virtual switch

In this section, we will follow a basic stepwise procedure to build our first Mininet virtual lab.

Step 1 - Downloading

Download Mininet from http://mininet.org/download/.

To start your journey with Mininet, download the Mininet virtual machine files from http://mininet.org/download/.

There are three ways to build Mininet, as follows:

1. Using the prebuilt virtual machine, download Mininet from the mininet.org website.

This is the easiest option; the prepackaged virtual machine includes a fully tested Mininet application running on a light Ubuntu server.

2. Download and compile Mininet from the source.

This option would be good if you don't have resources to load a virtual machine. Say you want to use Mininet...