Problem to link OFSID to NS3

[Sandino]

Hello, guys!

I'm having troubles with the building of OFSID in NS3.

After download the Openflow switch model through mercurial and posterior configuration and building by waf, the following command

$ ./waf configure --enable-examples --enable-tests --with-openflow=path/to/openflow

(already included the real path to openflow folder)

prints that does not exists the option "--with-openflow":

waf: error: no such option: --with-openflow

I found not nothing after googled for the same error, so, my last attempt is contact the owner of the module.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards!

PS: I exclude the original folder "Openflow" before download Openflow module through "hg clone ... ". Before it, the option "--with-openflow" seems to be still available. 

[Tommaso Pecorella]

Hi,

triple check the spelling of your configure command. If it's saying that there's no such option, then it's a misspelling. Otherwise it would have said that it can't find open flow in the specified directory.

Cheers,

T.

[Sandino]

It's not possible that it's a misspelling, it's exactly as suggested: "./waf configure --with-openflow="/home/sandino/ns-3-allinone/ns-3.24/src/openflow"

And it is made after building and configuration at the "openflow" folder, where the library is correctly created.

As you can see in the attached file, there is no "--with-openflow" as an option for the configure command.

Any suggestion?

[Tommaso Pecorella]

Hi,

perhaps the confusion is about the name of the openflow module and the openflow package.

I don't want to repeat here the configuration steps, as they are clearly described in the manual, but if you did download and install openflow in "/home/sandino/ns-3-allinone/ns-3.24/src/openflow", then you did overwrite and mess with the ns-3 openflow module (which is the ns-3 part responsible for the integration between openflow and ns-3).

Another possibility is that you have two ns-3 versions, one of them extremely old (pre-openflow) and you're using the old one by mistake.

My suggestion is to start from a fresh ns-3 and openflow installation, and to understand the instructions (following them blindly isn't good).

Cheers,

T.

[Sandino]

In fact, it was a confusion between module and package. Once the package was downloaded in a different folder from the module folder, the module was built successfully.

Thanks, Mr. Pecorella.