NOX - Network OS

NOX is an OpenFlow controller/ controller development platform. Here we'll use the "destiny" (v0.8) branch of NOX from the Git repository. As of now, a copy of the docs for v0.6 can be found under ./html in my home directory on external2. I shall move this to another, more appropriate place.

1. installation

1. Install git, build-essential, doxygen (for up-to-date NOX docs)

   apt-get install git-core build-essential doxygen
   

2. Pull NOX from git repo

   git clone git://noxrepo.org/nox
   

3. Install dependencies

   sudo apt-get install autoconf automake g++ libtool python python-twisted swig libboost-dev libxerces-c2-dev libssl-dev make libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-test-dev python-dev
   

4. Switch to the proper branch and build

   git checkout -b destiny origin/destiny
   ./boot.sh
   mkdir build
   cd build
   ../configure
   make
   

5. generate documentation

   cd doc/doxygen            <<--from build directory, not ~/nox
   make html
   

2. using NOX

2.1. starting up NOX

nox_core is used to start the controller and to load any scripts. It is located under ~/nox/build/src . For example

./nox_core -v -i ptcp:6633 switch packetdump

Will load the "learning switch" script. It will show up as "lt-nox_core" under ps -ef.