Installation of OpenFlow in NS3 is a simple task and here is the method to do that.
NS3 version: ns-3.24.1 and ns-3.25
Assumption: You should have installed #ns3 already in your machine.
#OpenFlow is a software helpful for Simulating Software Defined Networks (#SDN).
There are some packages needed to enable OpenFlow. Download these packages and try the installation later.
$] sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev
Go to the ~ns-allinone-3.24.1/ns-3.24.1 folder and give this command
$] hg clone http://code.nsnam.org/openflow
(if the above command does not work, the give this command)
$] sudo apt-get install mercurial
$] cd openflow
$] ./waf configure
$] ./waf build
(if the build failed in the above steps, please give your comments)
$] cd ..
$] ./waf configure --enable-examples --enable-tests --with-openflow=path/to/openflow
In my case
$] ./waf configure --enable-examples --enable-tests --with-openflow=openflow
After you run the above command, you should get the following scre…