Developing Software-Defined Networks with POX controller

POX is another controller written in Python. It can also function as an SDN switch, or a network operating system. POX is very easy to install and test from the source.

POX requires Python 2.7 to run, and currently it does not support Python 3. This is documented in the POX wiki: https://openflow.stanford.edu/display/ONL/POX+Wiki#POXWiki-DoesPOXsupportPython3%3F. Python 2 is still the commonest version even in SDN emulators such as Mininet, and hence it is advisable to have it installed for these recipes.

Getting ready

You may check out the source code of POX using:

$ git clone http://github.com/noxrepo/pox

In order to clone the source repository, make sure you have git installed in your computer. In Ubuntu, you may install git using,

$ sudo apt install git

Once you have cloned the source code locally into your computer, running POX is similar to running any other Python program. You may run it using the following command:

$ python pox.py...