Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop
by thomasreggi on Sunday February 24, 2013 @12:13AM
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I really like the example you give and am starting to ge the academic usage. Thanks for this reply!
Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop
by xtacy on Sunday February 24, 2013 @11:31AM
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You're welcome. There's a Mininet AMI too if you want to get started quickly!
Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop
by ninetax on Saturday February 23, 2013 @09:47PM
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Could you also use it to load test a web app?
Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop
by jlogsdon on Saturday February 23, 2013 @10:12PM
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You wouldn't need a fake network to load test a web app, and you'd end up being CPU bound for a good load test (as in, the load tester would be CPU bound, obviously you want the app to become maxed in CPU usage). AWS is actually great for doing something like this.
The Chicago Tribune actually released a tool to do load testing with AWS instances: http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2010/07/08/bees-with-mac...
If you're a distributed systems developer, you can use Mininet to create a topology and emulate the interaction of 100s of, say, bittorrent clients.
If you're a graduate student in networking, you can use Mininet to experiment with your new routing protocol and compare it against existing ones such as OSPF, BGP, etc.
You can also use it to put existing research papers to the test: http://reproducingnetworkresearch.wordpress.com