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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+"""
+Create a 1024-host network, and run the CLI on it.
+If this fails because of kernel limits, you may have
+to adjust them, e.g. by adding entries to /etc/sysctl.conf
+and running sysctl -p. Check util/sysctl_addon.
+"""
+
+from mininet.cli import CLI
+from mininet.log import setLogLevel
+from mininet.node import OVSKernelSwitch
+from mininet.topolib import TreeNet
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    setLogLevel( 'info' )
+    network = TreeNet( depth=2, fanout=32, switch=OVSKernelSwitch )
+    network.run( CLI, network )