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+package org.onlab.onos.config;
+
+import static org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Activate;
+import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Component;
+import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Deactivate;
+import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Reference;
+import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.ReferenceCardinality;
+import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
+import org.onlab.onos.net.ConnectPoint;
+import org.onlab.onos.net.DeviceId;
+import org.onlab.onos.net.PortNumber;
+import org.onlab.onos.net.host.HostAdminService;
+import org.onlab.onos.net.host.PortAddresses;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+/**
+ * Simple configuration module to read in supplementary network configuration
+ * from a file.
+ */
+@Component(immediate = true)
+public class NetworkConfigReader {
+
+    private final Logger log = getLogger(getClass());
+
+    private static final String DEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE = "config/addresses.json";
+    private String configFileName = DEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE;
+
+    @Reference(cardinality = ReferenceCardinality.MANDATORY_UNARY)
+    protected HostAdminService hostAdminService;
+
+    @Activate
+    protected void activate() {
+        log.info("Started network config reader");
+
+        log.info("Config file set to {}", configFileName);
+
+        AddressConfiguration config = readNetworkConfig();
+
+        if (config != null) {
+            for (AddressEntry entry : config.getAddresses()) {
+
+                ConnectPoint cp = new ConnectPoint(
+                        DeviceId.deviceId(dpidToUri(entry.getDpid())),
+                        PortNumber.portNumber(entry.getPortNumber()));
+
+                PortAddresses addresses = new PortAddresses(cp,
+                        Sets.newHashSet(entry.getIpAddresses()),
+                        entry.getMacAddress());
+
+                hostAdminService.bindAddressesToPort(addresses);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Deactivate
+    protected void deactivate() {
+        log.info("Stopped");
+    }
+
+    private AddressConfiguration readNetworkConfig() {
+        File configFile = new File(configFileName);
+
+        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+
+        try {
+            AddressConfiguration config =
+                    mapper.readValue(configFile, AddressConfiguration.class);
+
+            return config;
+        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
+            log.warn("Configuration file not found: {}", configFileName);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            log.error("Unable to read config from file:", e);
+        }
+
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    private static String dpidToUri(String dpid) {
+        return "of:" + dpid.replace(":", "");
+    }
+}