Using D-ITG Traffic Generator in Mininet

1.   Login into Mininet VM.
2.   $ sudo apt-get install unzip
3.  $ sudo apt-get install g++
4.  $ wget   http://traffic.comics.unina.it/software/ITG/codice/D-ITG-2.8.1-r1023-src.zip
5.   $ unzip  D-ITG-2.8.1-r1023-src.zip
6.  $ cd  D-ITG-2.8.1-r1023/src
7.   $ make

Once done, the binaries will be copied into the ”D-ITG-2.8.1-r2058M/bin” directory.

Demo Tutorial:

1. Download and install Xming X Server for Windows (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/).
2. Login into Mininet VM via PuTTY with X11 forwarding option selected.
3. Login into Mininet (this session is for controller setup).
4. $ cd  ~/pox
5. $ ./pox.py forwarding.l2_learning
   
6. Now run these commands into the first PuTTY session.
7. $ cd ~
8. $ sudo mn --controller=remote,ip=127.0.0.1,port=6633 
   
9. $ xterm h1
10. $ xterm h2 
    
11. Now in the xterm window of h2, run these commands.
12. $ cd D-ITG-2.8.1-r1023/bin
13. $ ./ITGRecv 
    
14. Now in the xterm of h1, run these commands.
15. $ cd D-ITG-2.8.1-r1023/bin
16. $ ./ITGSend –T UDP  –a 10.0.0.2 –c 100 –C 10 –t 15000 -l sender.log –x receiver.log 
    
17. Now to analyze the logs, run these command.
18. Run this in the xterm of h1.
19. $ ./ITGDec sender.log
20. 
    
    
21. Similarly run this on h2.
22. $ ./ITGDec receiver.log 
    

References:

1. mininet.org/walkthrough/
2. traffic.comics.unina.it/software/ITG/manual/