Compile a p4 file in mininet

Question

I have a custom topology custom.py and I wrote a p4file.p4 file. The problem is that I don't know how to use the p4file.p4 into mininet with my topology.

For instance, in this github repository (https://github.com/p4lang/tutorials/tree/master/exercises/basic) they use the make run command to compile the p4 file, to start the topology and configure all the hosts.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can use the P4-Utils library to define a custom topology and run a p4 file on each switch. The process is pretty simple and explained well in their documentation.