#!/usr/bin/python """ Create a network and start sshd(8) on each host. While something like rshd(8) would be lighter and faster, (and perfectly adequate on an in-machine network) the advantage of running sshd is that scripts can work unchanged on mininet and hardware. In addition to providing ssh access to hosts, this example demonstrates: - creating a convenience function to construct networks - connecting the host network to the root namespace - running server processes (sshd in this case) on hosts """ import sys from mininet.net import Mininet from mininet.cli import CLI from mininet.log import lg from mininet.node import Node from mininet.topolib import TreeTopo from mininet.link import Link def TreeNet( depth=1, fanout=2, **kwargs ): "Convenience function for creating tree networks." topo = TreeTopo( depth, fanout ) return Mininet( topo, **kwargs ) def connectToRootNS( network, switch, ip, routes ): """Connect hosts to root namespace via switch. Starts network. network: Mininet() network object switch: switch to connect to root namespace ip: IP address for root namespace node routes: host networks to route to""" # Create a node in root namespace and link to switch 0 root = Node( 'root', inNamespace=False ) intf = Link( root, switch ).intf1 root.setIP( ip, intf=intf ) # Start network that now includes link to root namespace network.start() # Add routes from root ns to hosts for route in routes: root.cmd( 'route add -net ' + route + ' dev ' + str( intf ) ) def sshd( network, cmd='/usr/sbin/sshd', opts='-D', ip='10.123.123.1/32', routes=None, switch=None ): """Start a network, connect it to root ns, and run sshd on all hosts. ip: root-eth0 IP address in root namespace (10.123.123.1/32) routes: Mininet host networks to route to (10.0/24) switch: Mininet switch to connect to root namespace (s1)""" if not switch: switch = network[ 's1' ] # switch to use if not routes: routes = [ '10.0.0.0/24' ] connectToRootNS( network, switch, ip, routes ) for host in network.hosts: host.cmd( cmd + ' ' + opts + '&' ) print print "*** Hosts are running sshd at the following addresses:" print for host in network.hosts: print host.name, host.IP() print print "*** Type 'exit' or control-D to shut down network" CLI( network ) for host in network.hosts: host.cmd( 'kill %' + cmd ) network.stop() if __name__ == '__main__': lg.setLogLevel( 'info') net = TreeNet( depth=1, fanout=4 ) # get sshd args from the command line or use default args # useDNS=no -u0 to avoid reverse DNS lookup timeout opts = ' '.join( sys.argv[ 1: ] ) if len( sys.argv ) > 1 else ( '-D -o UseDNS=no -u0' ) sshd( net, opts=opts )