Day 1 - Maiden Voyage

And so it begins! The grand experiment with the all new SDN technology and of course the very start of my final year project. In this blog I ll post notes about my progress and my findings throughout the life cycle of the project, although this is mainly to be used as a point of reference in the future and for my tutor to keep up with my progress any comments, thoughts and yada yada are always welcome.

Sooooooo, the first step in this journey was  to download the necessairy tools. These tools were:

1. Mininet Image: Mininet creates a realistic virtual network, running real kernel, switch and application code, on a single machine (VM, cloud or native). Because you can easily interact with your network using the Mininet CLI and API, customize it, share it with others, or deploy it on real hardware, Mininet is useful for development, teaching, and research.
   Mininet is also a great way to develop, share, and experiment with OpenFlow and Software-Defined Networking systems. Mininet is actively developed and supported, and is released under a permissive BSD Open Source license. We encourage contribution of code, bug reports/fixes, documentation, and anything else that can improve the system.
2. Update and set up all the others tools that, thankfully, came allong with my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS OS. Virtual Box to run the image on a VM, X-Server and Ubuntu terminal to use as an SSH client.
   
   
   
   Eventually everything was installed and ready to setup, soooo in order to familiarize myself with the whole SDN tech, I ll start by using openFlow and more specifically this tutorial. Throughout the course of the following days I hope to be able to complete it and well if i get stuck you ll propably read about it here it too.