Old Feature Requests

CLI Requests

• configurable xterm spawning, or at minimum, spawn a single xterm from the CLI
• option to daemonize run script
• add SSHD test to CLI to, say, run hostname via SSH and grab the output
• start/stop switches in order
• set/add configurable max_backoff on switches
• print dpid via nodeid function from topo?
• extract default port from openflow.h
• split --mac setting into host and switches
• add get_connected_hosts function to topo
• print average ping time from regression test

Doc/Install Requests

• API documentation (comment re-uglification filter + doxypy + upload to wiki)

Code Cleanup

• clean up params in Mininet.init
• add ports() call to just call port() twice and return the tuple
• reconsider the functions in Node; split some into a Port object, others to a NamespaceHost, others to ProcessNode?
• check all uses of send; make as many of these into named functions as possible; should simplify porting to remote usage [Why does this help? -BL]
• NetCLI? separate out the control from creation aspects? [I say just fix the CLI, and do proxies if desired. However, we will do a CLI for cluster edition. -BL]
• dpid naming could really be redone - rename as an id, or nodeid, or something else. [I have my doubts about dpids -BL]

Speedup Requests

• consider multithread setup and cleanup [Probably won't help, but you never know. -BL]

Other Requests

• Add host log. Namespaces all share the same history; would be useful to a have h0.log. Not sure if this is possible. Maybe tee std output to a file, and have a separate input log?
• Increase inactivity timer to clean up debug log output with nox
• Support multiple controllers
• Support distributed operation: mix of physical and virtual ports.
• ensure controller is dead at the start?
• Generalize the Port object; enable non-config or already-configured ports. Plus add up/down methods.