On 20/11/17 09:48, Piotr Jurkiewicz wrote: > Package: mininet > > Open vSwitch is not necessary to run Mininet. There are many use cases for > Mininet without Open vSwitch. For example we are using it to orchestrate > nodes running Click Modular Router or in-kernel IP forwarding (like in > examples/linuxrouter.py). > > Changing openvswitch-switch to Recommends instead Depends would allow us to > build smaller VM images and avoid manual disabling of ovs daemons after > installation. It would still be installed by default for most users who do > not use additional --no-install-recommends flag. >
Yeah, you are right. It's not strictly necessary, for example one can run: # sudo mn --topo tree,depth=2,fanout=3 --switch=lxbr Makes sense to me, I will upload an updated version soon. Thanks! Tomasz
