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I am adding the following two features to a local copy of mininet in order to port a geni demo over to mininet.
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I am using linux bridging to create an ssh control path into "host" nodes so that they can be configured (arp,route,ifconfig) by a multi-discipline SDN controller. Currently, this uses brctl, but maybe I can do the same thing with ip-link.
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I am adding dummy ports to "host" nodes to emulate the spare ethernets that often exist on geni resources. This allows certain synthetic topologies where the hosts actually represent edge routers.
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Generating a simplified manifest rspec from a populated mininet net object.
If there is interest from the community, I will contribute these changes back to mininet once they have been fully tested.