Python Network Programming
by Abhishek Ratan, Eric Chou, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
How it works...
Containernet extends Mininet with the container support specifically for Docker. It can be installed locally as your Mininet installation, or installed as a Vagrant image.
While MaxiNet aims to increase the scalability and throughput of Mininet, Mininet-WiFi and Containernet aim to offer more features to Mininet. As Mininet offers a Python-based API, it can be extended with Python modules. In the core, you may extend its kernel with C code.
Similar to Mininet-WiFi, Containernet too thrives to maintain backward-compatibility with Mininet. Thus emulations written in Mininet should work in these projects that are started as a fork of Mininet. Moreover, the APIs are maintained to resemble that of Mininet with minimal changes, ...
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