= Federation Users Guide =

This tutorial walks through using the federation command line tools to create and operate federated experiments.  To simplify the turotial, most of the experiments are actually federated withing DETERLab or between DETERLab and a desktop federant.  The procedures generalize to more wide open federation.

In order to create federated experiments you will need permission to open holes in DETER's containment.  Being able to connect across experiments or from an experiment to outside hosts means that users can send traffic that seems to originate from inside DETERLab - in fact some examples explain how to do that fairly generally. To get this privilege contact testbed operations.

== Creating A Federated Experiment ==