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Python Network Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Network Programming Cookbook Practical solutions to overcome real-world networking challenges

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Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463999
Length 450 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Pradeeban Kathiravelu is an open source evangelist. He is a Ph.D. researcher at INESC-ID Lisboa/Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He is a Fellow of Erasmus Mundus Joint Degree in Distributed Computing (EMJD-DC), researching a software-defined approach to quality of service and data quality in multi-tenant clouds. Pradeeban holds a master of science degree, Erasmus Mundus European Master in Distributed Computing (EMDC), from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He also holds a first class bachelor of science in engineering (Hons) degree, majoring in computer science and engineering, from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His research interests include Software-Defined Networking (SDN), distributed systems, cloud computing, web services, big data in biomedical informatics, Network Functions Virtualizations (NFV), and data mining. He is very interested in free and open source software development and has been an active participant in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program since 2009, as a student and as a mentor. Pradeeban has published several conference papers and co-authored a few book chapters. He has also worked on OpenDaylight Cookbook and Learning OpenDaylight as a technical reviewer. Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition (2017) is his first book as an author, and he is quite excited about it.
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Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker is a software architect based in London; he has shaped various Linux and open source software solutions mainly on cloud computing platforms for various institutions. Over the past 10 years, he has led numerous Python software development and cloud infrastructure automation projects. In 2009, he started using Python and shepherded a fleet of miniature E-puck robots at the University of South Wales, Newport, UK. Later, he was invited to work on the Google Summer of Code (2009/2010) programs to contribute to the BlueZ and Tahoe-LAFS open source projects. He is the author of Python Network Programming Cookbook, Packt Publishing and received his PhD in multirobot systems at the University of South Wales.
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Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
1. Sockets, IPv4, and Simple Client/Server Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Multiplexing Socket I/O for Better Performance 3. IPv6, Unix Domain Sockets, and Network Interfaces 4. Programming with HTTP for the Internet 5. Email Protocols, FTP, and CGI Programming 6. Programming Across Machine Boundaries 7. Working with Web Services – XML-RPC, SOAP, and REST 8. Network Monitoring and Security 9. Network Modeling 10. Getting Started with SDN 11. Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) 12. Open and Proprietary Networking Solutions 13. NFV and Orchestration – A Larger Ecosystem 14. Programming the Internet

Developing Software-Defined Networks with OpenDaylight controller

OpenDaylight is an enterprise controller commonly used in production. We will look into configuring OpenDaylight as the controller to use with Mininet.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will first install OpenDaylight locally. We will use its Beryllium version, as the latter versions removed OpenDaylight DLUX (the graphical user interface module) from bundling by default in the released binary ZIP:

wget https://nexus.opendaylight.org/content/repositories/opendaylight.release/org/opendaylight/integration/distribution-karaf/0.4.4-Beryllium-SR4/distribution-karaf-0.4.4-Beryllium-SR4.zip

You may also download other versions (such as Boron, Carbon, or latter versions in the future) from https://www.opendaylight.org/downloads. However, you will have to download and install the bundles such as DLUX on your own.

Unzip the distribution ZIP archive:

$ unzip distribution-karaf-0.4.4-Beryllium-SR4.zip

Then go to the bin folder:

$ cd distribution...
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