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    The document provides a tutorial on installing and using the Floodlight OpenFlow controller. It discusses that Floodlight is an open-source Java-based SDN controller that supports OpenFlow switches. The steps outlined include downloading Floodlight from GitHub, installing prerequisites like Java 8 and Ant, building Floodlight, running it, and using it to create a simple Mininet topology with one switch and three hosts that can be pinged.

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    The document provides a tutorial on installing and using the Floodlight OpenFlow controller. It discusses that Floodlight is an open-source Java-based SDN controller that supports OpenFlow switches. The steps outlined include downloading Floodlight from GitHub, installing prerequisites like Java 8 and Ant, building Floodlight, running it, and using it to create a simple Mininet topology with one switch and three hosts that can be pinged.

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    Floodlight Controller Tutorial

    Posted on March 6, 2018March 6, 2018 by Pradeepa

    Floodlight Controller:

    The Floodlight Open SDN Controller is an enterprise-class, Apache-licensed, Java-based OpenFlow


    Controller and intended to run with standard JDK tools and ant.

    Highlights:

    Easy to set up with minimal dependencies


    Supports a broad range of virtual and physical OpenFlow switches
    Can handle mixed OpenFlow and non- OpenFlow networks.
    It can manage multiple “islands” of OpenFlow hardware switches
    Designed to be high-performance

    Installation:

    Floodlight master has been updated (on 04/30/16) to Java 8.

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    Prerequisites:

    Java development kit


    JDK 8 for Floodlight master and above
    JDK 7 for Floodlight v1.2 and below
    Ant to build
    Python development package

    -To download dependencies for Floodlight master and above:

    sudo apt-get install build-essential ant maven python-dev

    -To download dependencies for Floodlight v1.2 and below:

    sudo apt-get install build-essential openjdk-7-jdk ant maven python-dev eclipse

    Download And Build:

    Floodlight is simple to download from Github and install. The “git clone” step below uses the master
    version of Floodlight.Type the below command in SDNHub Terminal.

    $ git clone git://github.com/floodlight/floodlight.git

    If You are having JDK 7 use a specific version, specify the version branch in the “git clone”

    $ git clone -b v1.2 git://github.com/floodlight/floodlight.git

    After installation complete follow the steps to build floodlight controller.

    $ cd floodlight
    $ git submodule init
    $ git submodule update
    $ ant

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    After build completed successful. Make a directory floodlight and set root permission for it.
    $ sudo mkdir /var/lib/floodlight
    $ sudo chmod 777 /var/lib/floodlight

    Running Floodlight in the Terminal

    Assuming java is in your path, you can directly run the floodlight.jar file produced by ant from
    within the floodlight directory:

    $ java -jar target/floodlight.jar

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    To Create mininet topology with floodlight remote controller, another terminal run the below
    command,

    $ cd floodlight

    $ sudo mn --controlle=remote,ip=127.0.0.1,port=6653 --topo=single,3

    we created single topology with 3 host 1 switch and one controller. This can be view in the following
    url. Go to web browser and type,

    http://127.0.0.1:8080/ui/index.html (http://127.0.0.1:8080/ui/index.html)

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    In topology tab we can see our topology.

    Switches can be view in switches tab.

    Hosts are listed in Hosts tab.

    we can view host separately by xterm in mininet

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    mininet>xterm h1 h2

    ping each other host by ping command with host IP

    In node h1 $ ping 10.0.0.2

    In node h2 $ ping 10.0.0.1

    Done

    Congrats! Now you can simulate your various topologies with floodlight controllers.

    Posted in Floodlight, SDN, SDN controllers, SDN simulator Tagged Floodlight, Floodlight
    installation, Floodlight tutorial, SDN, SDN Controller 3 Comments

    3 thoughts on “Floodlight Controller Tutorial”


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    1.
    Emran says:
    April 23, 2018 at 8:14 pm
    Hello,
    This is really a very helpful website. I am interested in SDN Simulator which has support for both
    SDN based Wifi and Cellular networks. Can you please guide me which simulator has support for
    both SDN based Wifi and Cellular networks.
    Regards,
    Emran

    REPLY
    1.
    Pradeepa says:
    May 21, 2018 at 6:13 am
    Thank you. you can use mininet wifi for sdn based wifi

    2. REPLY
    Pradeepa says:
    May 21, 2018 at 6:14 am

    How to install Mininet WiFi

    REPLY

    A WordPress.com Website.

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