Containerized-Mininet

Basic Mininet in a Docker Image. Currently supported are the current Mininet release (v2.2.2) and the latest (05. April 2020) tagged commit (v2.3.0d6).

If not other specified this image bases upon debian:stretch-slim.

Execution

Execute the following command to test if the images works with the basic built-in test, you may want to add -v debug at the end for more output. Normal Run:

docker run --privileged hanszimmer5000/mininet:v2.2-latest mn --test pingall

Run with X11 and xterm (with Help from StackOverflow):

XSOCK=/tmp/.X11-unix
XAUTH=/tmp/.docker.xauth
xauth nlist :0 | sed -e 's/^..../ffff/' | xauth -f $XAUTH nmerge -

docker run \
    --rm \
    --privileged \
    -it \
    -e DISPLAY="$DISPLAY" \
    -e XAUTHORITY=$XAUTH \
    -v $XSOCK:$XSOCK \
    -v $XAUTH:$XAUTH \
    hanszimmer5000/mininet:v2.2.2-v1.1 \
    xterm

Unfortunately the --privileged is not mandatory. Which special rights mininet uses, I haven't looked up yet.

Docker Image Versioning

List of image versions:

• latest: Latest version of this image running Mininet (currently v2.3.0d6)
• v2.2-latest: Latest version of this image running Mininet (currently v2.2.2)
• v2.3-latest: Latest version of this image running Mininet (currently v2.3.0d6)
• <Mininet-Version>-<Image-Version>: Specific tags for specific mininet versions and image versions.

As example, the :v2.2.2-v1.0 means this is Mininet v2.2.2 in image major version 1 and minor version 0 (like used for PostgreSQL versioning).

• Major updates include new functionalities for the user.
• Minor updates include small fixes and upgrades for the build process.