I've heard some good stuff about mininet, a lot of engineering students use it during their studies in France

Here's the tarball https://github.com/mininet/mininet/archive/2.2.2.tar.gz

So I've been working on building Mininet, there's a blocker though:

Mininet needs a dependency called openvswitch, which isn't in the repos. I have a working package for it but openvswitch needs a kernel module (named openvswitch) to properly work.

Openvswitch's Makefile provides a way to compile the kernel module so we could have it as an out-of-tree module, but it's also included in the kernel here (thanks @Girtablulu for helping find this)

The question is: should we use the out-of-tree or the in-tree module? I'm guessing having it compiled isn't really a problem, but the number of people using it will probably be so small it may be considered bloat by everyone else.

@DataDrake what do you think?

Sure, no problem, I see you already included the module in the 5.5 kernel, I built it locally and mininet is working fine, submitting right now