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Python Network Programming Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Gary Berger, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
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Python Network Programming Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Gary Berger, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker

Overview of this book

Python Network Programming Cookbook - Second Edition highlights the major aspects of network programming in Python, starting from writing simple networking clients to developing and deploying complex Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) systems. It creates the building blocks for many practical web and networking applications that rely on various networking protocols. It presents the power and beauty of Python to solve numerous real-world tasks in the area of network programming, network and system administration, network monitoring, and web-application development. In this edition, you will also be introduced to network modelling to build your own cloud network. You will learn about the concepts and fundamentals of SDN and then extend your network with Mininet. Next, you’ll find recipes on Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) and open and proprietary SDN approaches and frameworks. You will also learn to configure the Linux Foundation networking ecosystem and deploy and automate your networks with Python in the cloud and the Internet scale. By the end of this book, you will be able to analyze your network security vulnerabilities using advanced network packet capture and analysis techniques.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Configuring Red PNDA

PNDA is an open source platform for network data analytics. It is horizontally scalable and complex to deploy on a single computer. To be able to test smaller scale applications in the developer computers, a smaller downsized version of PNDA known as Red PNDA (https://github.com/pndaproject/red-pnda) is also available. In this recipe, we will configure Red PNDA, the minimal version of PNDA in a laptop.

Getting ready

You need to have a minimum of 4GB memory, 2 VCPUs, and 8GB hard disk to install Red PNDA. It requires up to an hour to configure and install, this also depends on how fast your internet connection is.

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