Hello Henry. I was using the VM provided at the website for VirtualBox. Anyway, my issue was resolved. Nicholas hit right on spot with is comment. I failed to see that the Mac addresses I was specifying, were in fact broadcast addresses.
On 22 December 2016 at 19:23, HENRYDOSS, JAMES <jd5...@att.com> wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > Can you please let me know what test environment you used for this > testing. Are you using VM or installed the mininet software source version. > > James Henrydoss > > > -----Original Message----- > From: openflow-discuss [mailto:openflow-discuss- > boun...@mailman.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Carlos Ferreira > Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 6:47 AM > To: openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu <openflow-discuss@mailman. > stanford.edu> > Subject: [openflow-discuss] mininet not obeying to mac specification, when > creating a host. > > Hello to all! > To start, I know that there is a mininet mailing list. I have already sent > an e-mail to there, but until now, I had no response. > > This is my issue. > I have created a python program to create a testing topology. > For some reason, when I use the "addHost" method and use the argument > "mac" to specify the mac address for the host interface, mininet ignores > the provided mac address an seems to create and specify the hosts with > random mac addresses. > I do not know why this is happening... Can anyone help me? > > This is my Python program > #### Starts here > > #!/usr/bin/python2 > > """ > Custom Network Topology > > 2 different zones each controlled by a different Controller > Each controller manages 3 OpenFlow switches > Each OF Switch has 3 hosts connected > Each zone has a triangle shaped topology, where all switches are > conected to the controller > > 2 Switches from each zone, interconnect the two zones > - Switch 2 from Zone 1 connects to the Switch 1 from Zone 2 > - Switch 3 from Zone 1 connects to the Switch 2 from Zone 2 > > The two controllers are remote controllers, residing outside from the > mininet environment. > > """ > from struct import pack > from mininet.net import Mininet > from mininet.node import RemoteController from mininet.log import > setLogLevel from mininet.cli import CLI > > > def byteStr2HexStr(byteStr): > return ''.join([str.format("{:02X}", ord(x)) for x in byteStr]).strip() > > setLogLevel('info') > > > net = Mininet(build=False) > > c1 = net.addController("c1", controller=RemoteController, > ip='192.168.1.254', port=6631) > c2 = net.addController("c2", controller=RemoteController, > ip='192.168.1.254', port=6632) > > c1_s1 = net.addSwitch("c1_s1", protocols='OpenFlow13', > dpid=byteStr2HexStr(pack("!Q", 1)), mac='01:00:00:01:01:00') > c1_s2 = net.addSwitch("c1_s2", protocols='OpenFlow13', > dpid=byteStr2HexStr(pack("!Q", 2)), mac='01:00:00:01:02:00') > c1_s3 = net.addSwitch("c1_s3", protocols='OpenFlow13', > dpid=byteStr2HexStr(pack("!Q", 3)), mac='01:00:00:01:03:00') > c2_s1 = net.addSwitch("c2_s1", protocols='OpenFlow13', > dpid=byteStr2HexStr(pack("!Q", 4)), mac='01:00:00:02:01:00') > c2_s2 = net.addSwitch("c2_s2", protocols='OpenFlow13', > dpid=byteStr2HexStr(pack("!Q", 5)), mac='01:00:00:02:02:00') > c2_s3 = net.addSwitch("c2_s3", protocols='OpenFlow13', > dpid=byteStr2HexStr(pack("!Q", 6)), mac='01:00:00:02:03:00') > switches_c1 = [c1_s1, c1_s2, c1_s3] > switches_c2 = [c2_s1, c2_s2, c2_s3] > > > c1_s1_h1 = net.addHost("c1_s1_h1", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c1_s1_h1")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:01:01:01') > c1_s1_h2 = net.addHost("c1_s1_h2", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c1_s1_h2")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:01:01:02') > c1_s1_h3 = net.addHost("c1_s1_h3", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c1_s1_h3")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:01:01:03') > c1_s2_h1 = net.addHost("c1_s2_h1", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c1_s2_h1")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:01:02:01') > c1_s2_h2 = net.addHost("c1_s2_h2", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c1_s2_h2")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:01:02:02') > c1_s2_h3 = net.addHost("c1_s2_h3", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c1_s2_h3")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:01:02:03') > c1_s3_h1 = net.addHost("c1_s3_h1", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c1_s3_h1")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:01:03:01') > c1_s3_h2 = net.addHost("c1_s3_h2", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c1_s3_h2")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:01:03:02') > c1_s3_h3 = net.addHost("c1_s3_h3", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c1_s3_h3")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:01:03:03') > > c2_s1_h1 = net.addHost("c1_s1_h1", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c2_s1_h1")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:02:01:01') > c2_s1_h2 = net.addHost("c1_s1_h2", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c2_s1_h2")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:02:01:02') > c2_s1_h3 = net.addHost("c1_s1_h3", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c2_s1_h3")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:02:01:03') > c2_s2_h1 = net.addHost("c1_s2_h1", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c2_s2_h1")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:02:02:01') > c2_s2_h2 = net.addHost("c1_s2_h2", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c2_s2_h2")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:02:02:02') > c2_s2_h3 = net.addHost("c1_s2_h3", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c2_s2_h3")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:02:02:03') > c2_s3_h1 = net.addHost("c1_s3_h1", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c2_s3_h1")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:02:03:01') > c2_s3_h2 = net.addHost("c1_s3_h2", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c2_s3_h2")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:02:03:02') > c2_s3_h3 = net.addHost("c1_s3_h3", > privateDirs=['/home/mininet/Scenarios/Hosts/{}'.format("c2_s3_h3")], > ip='0.0.0.0', mac='01:00:00:02:03:03') > hosts = [c1_s1_h1, c1_s1_h2, c1_s1_h3, c1_s2_h1, c1_s2_h2, c1_s2_h3, > c1_s3_h1, c1_s3_h2, c1_s3_h3, c2_s1_h1, c2_s1_h2, c2_s1_h3, c2_s2_h1, > c2_s2_h2, c2_s2_h3, c2_s3_h1, c2_s3_h2, c2_s3_h3] > > > net.addLink(c1_s1_h1, c1_s1) > net.addLink(c1_s1_h2, c1_s1) > net.addLink(c1_s1_h3, c1_s1) > net.addLink(c1_s2_h1, c1_s2) > net.addLink(c1_s2_h2, c1_s2) > net.addLink(c1_s2_h3, c1_s2) > net.addLink(c1_s3_h1, c1_s3) > net.addLink(c1_s3_h2, c1_s3) > net.addLink(c1_s3_h3, c1_s3) > > net.addLink(c2_s1_h1, c2_s1) > net.addLink(c2_s1_h2, c2_s1) > net.addLink(c2_s1_h3, c2_s1) > net.addLink(c2_s2_h1, c2_s2) > net.addLink(c2_s2_h2, c2_s2) > net.addLink(c2_s2_h3, c2_s2) > net.addLink(c2_s3_h1, c2_s3) > net.addLink(c2_s3_h2, c2_s3) > net.addLink(c2_s3_h3, c2_s3) > > net.addLink(c1_s2, c2_s1) > net.addLink(c1_s3, c2_s2) > > net.build() > > for switch in switches_c1: > switch.start([c1]) > > for switch in switches_c2: > switch.start([c2]) > > for host in hosts: > host.cmdPrint("dhclient {} &".format(host.defaultIntf().name)) > > CLI(net) > net.stop() > ### Ends Here. > > > I start this program, named "testing_scenario.py", inside the Ubuntu VM > provided in the mininet website, by using the following console > command: > sudo ./testing_scenario.py > > -- > > Carlos Miguel Ferreira > Researcher at Telecommunications Institute Aveiro - Portugal Work E-mail - > c...@av.it.pt Skype & GTalk -> carlosmf...@gmail.com LinkedIn -> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosmferreira > _______________________________________________ > openflow-discuss mailing list > openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss > -- Carlos Miguel Ferreira Researcher at Telecommunications Institute Aveiro - Portugal Work E-mail - c...@av.it.pt Skype & GTalk -> carlosmf...@gmail.com LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosmferreira
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