# 概述

Stanford 大学 Nick McKeown 教授领导的研究小组基于 Linux Container 架构，开发出了这套进程虚拟化的平台。在 Mininet 的帮助下，你可以轻易的在自己的笔记本上测试一个软件定义网络 （Software-Defined Networks），对基于 Openflow、Open vSwitch 的各种协议等进行开发验证，或者验证自己的想法。

最令人振奋的是，所有的代码几乎可以无缝迁移到真实的硬件环境中。在实验室里，一行命令就可以创建一个支持 SDN 的任意拓扑的网络结构，并可以灵活的进行相关测试，验证了设计的正确后，又可以轻 松部署到真实的硬件环境中。目前 Mininet 已经作为官方的演示平台对各个版本的 Openflow 协议进行演示和测试。

Mininet 项目的首页在 <http://www.openflowswitch.org/foswiki/bin/view/OpenFlow/Mininet>，目前主要维护者为 Bob Lantz 跟 Brandon Heller。讨论组地址为 [mininet-discuss@lists.stanford.edu](https://github.com/yeasy/mininet_book/tree/9aaa1b21972041f2207f78477273a845c8bef82d/introduction/mininet-discuss@lists.stanford.edu)。


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