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I'm building a virtual environment and need to simulate a real switch with devices attached. I prefer to stay away from a single vendor solution & Mininet/OVS look promising.

However, I don't find snmp support in the docs. I need to obtain the switch arp & mac tables (at a minimum) via either SNMP or a cli command via ssh. This is trivial with a Cisco switch or most any hardware vendor.

Any thoughts in how I can simulate this with mininet?

TIA,

-Steve

jacksonp
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ovs switches are openflow switches, openflow switches maintain flow tables.

Do you need to simulate or emulate? checkout GNS3

indlabs
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SNMP is a protocol of the management plane, not of the data or control plane which is the focus of SDN.

However, I think I read about an ODL (OpenDaylight) project that offers a controller app/plugin to handle SNMP. This might be it.

ODL & OVS & Mininet work together.

Brotsalat
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