<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You need to specify an alternate port and you need to instruct your switches to connect to that port instead of the original. <div><br></div><div>For example, to run on port 6634 instead of the default 6633 using Mininet, you might use commandlines like...</div><div><br></div><div>./pox.py openflow.of_01 --port=6634 forwarding.l2_learning</div><div><br></div><div>and</div><div><br></div><div>mn --controller=remote,ip=192.168.56.1,port=6634</div><div><br></div><div>-- Murphy</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jul 16, 2013, at 2:36 PM, nibble nibble wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Actually for --port, I got :<br><b>POX 0.2.0 (carp) / Copyright 2011-2013 James McCauley, et al.<br>
[core ] POX 0.2.0 (carp) is up.<br><br></b></div><div>and nothing else and controller is not working(installing rules ..)<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:26 PM, nibble nibble <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nibblenibble20@gmail.com" target="_blank">nibblenibble20@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<pre>./pox.py samples.pretty_log forwarding.l2_learning </pre><br></div>I got the error:<br><b>POX 0.2.0 (carp) / Copyright 2011-2013 James McCauley, et al.<br>
[core ] POX 0.2.0 (carp) is up.<br>[openflow.of_01 ] Error 98 while binding socket: Address already in use<br>[openflow.of_01 ] You may have another controller running.<br>[openflow.of_01 ] Use openflow.of_01 --port=<port> to run POX on another port.</b><br>
<br><br></div>I am almost sure there is no other controller running, I even tried:<br><br></div>sudo killall controller<br></div>sudo mn -c<br><br></div>but they did not work<br></div>also using --port or port did not work. I got:<br>
</div>This component does not have a parameter named 'port'<br></div>
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