Someone has tried Mininet and NFV(Network Function Virtualization)?
Specifically running hosts, switches and VNFs(Virtual Network Function) on a Mininet network.
The idea is that all the traffic from a host-source to a host-destination pass through a VNF (can be a generic network function) before reach the destination.
Yes, I tried. With Mininet depending on what you want to run, you can have some problem with Isolation of the VNF. For VNF I suggest you Distrinet or Containernet, that are both Mininet extensions, Distrinet is using LXC to virtualize the vHost while with Containernet you can use Docker for your VNF.
I am one of the main contributors of Distrinet, so if you have questions don't hesitate to ask. This video shows a demo of with Hadoop in vHosts and a virtual streaming server running, but you can install your VNF following the tutorial
Or with containernet you can check this really nice work form the creators of Containernet
