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Alex Afanasyev, 03/20/2014 05:22 PM

Face Management

Face Management is a module of NFD Management protocol.
It provides:

  • commands to create and destroy faces
  • commands to enable and disable LocalControlHeader features on a face
  • a dataset of description of all active faces and their counters
  • a notification stream for face creating and destroying events

Face Management commands, datasets, and notifications are published in namespace ndn:/localhost/nfd/faces.

FaceUri

A FaceUri indicates the underlying protocol and underlying address of a Face.

UDP unicast

udp[4|6]://<remote-IP-or-host>[:<remote-port>]

Examples:

  • udp4://192.0.2.1:6363 (canonical form)
  • udp6://[2001:db8::1]:6363 (canonical form)
  • udp://192.0.2.1 (remote-port defaults to 6363)
  • udp://example.net:6363
  • udp4://example.net:6363 (resolve hostname to IPv4 address only)
  • udp6://example.net:6363 (resolve hostname to IPv6 address only)

UDP multicast

udp-mcast://<multicast-IP>:<multicast-port>

Examples:

  • udp://224.0.23.170:56363

TCP

tcp[4|6]://<remote-IP-or-host>[:<remote-port>]

Examples:

  • tcp4://192.0.2.1:6363 (canonical form)
  • tcp6://[2001:db8::1]:6363 (canonical form)
  • tcp://192.0.2.1 (remote-port defaults to 6363)
  • tcp://example.net:6363
  • tcp4://example.net:6363 (resolve hostname to IPv4 address only)
  • tcp6://example.net:6363 (resolve hostname to IPv6 address only)

UNIX stream

unix://<path>

Examples:

  • unix:///var/run/nfd.sock (note there are three forward-slashes after 'unix')

URI is available for the channel only.
Accepted UNIX stream faces do not have URI.

Ethernet unicast

ether://<remote-MAC>

Examples:

  • ether://08:00:27:01:01:01

Ethernet multicast

ether-mcast://<multicast-MAC>

Examples:

  • ether-mcast://33:33:01:01:01:01

Control Commands

ControlCommand management-module: faces

Create a face

command-verb: create

ControlParameters fields:

  • Uri (required): a FaceUri that represents a UDP unicast tunnel or a TCP tunnel

This command allows creation of UDP unicast and TCP faces only.

If another face exists for the same underlying protocol and address, the command is considered successful, and FaceId of that face is returned.

If the command succeeds, <Body> in ControlResponse block contains updated ControlParameters:

  • FaceId
  • Uri: FaceUri in canonical form - hostname is substituted with IP address, scheme name indicates either IPv4 or IPv6

Destroy a face

command-verb: destroy

ControlParameters fields:

  • FaceId (required)

If the specified face does not exist, this command does nothing, but is still considered successful.

Enable a LocalControlHeader feature

command-verb: enable-local-control

ControlParameters fields:

  • FaceId (required)
  • LocalControlFeature (required): 1=IncomingFaceId, 2=NextHopFaceId

If the face doesn't exist, the command fails with code 404.

If the face is not local, the command fails with code 412.

Disable a LocalControlHeader feature

command-verb: disable-local-control

ControlParameters fields:

  • FaceId (required)
  • LocalControlFeature (required): 1=IncomingFaceId, 2=NextHopFaceId

If the face doesn't exist, the command fails with code 404.

If the face is not local, the command fails with code 412.

Face Dataset

Description and counters of all active faces are published as a Status Dataset at ndn:/localhost/nfd/faces/list.

Each face is represented by a FaceStatus blocks:

FaceStatus    := FACE-STATUS-TYPE TLV-LENGTH
                   FaceId
                   Uri
                   NInInterests
                   NInDatas
                   NOutInterests
                   NOutDatas

NInInterests  := N-IN-INTERESTS-TYPE TLV-LENGTH
                   nonNegativeInteger

NInDatas      := N-IN-DATAS-TYPE TLV-LENGTH
                   nonNegativeInteger

NOutInterests := N-OUT-INTERESTS-TYPE TLV-LENGTH
                   nonNegativeInteger

NOutDatas     := N-OUT-DATAS-TYPE TLV-LENGTH
                   nonNegativeInteger
  • NInInterests is the total number of incoming Interests since the face is established.
  • NInDatas is the total number of incoming Datas since the face is established.
  • NOutInterests is the total number of outgoing Interests since the face is established.
  • NOutDatas is the total number of outgoing Datas since the face is established.

Face Status Change Notification

Face status change events are published as a Notification Stream at ndn:/localhost/nfd/faces/events.
Events of all faces are sent into the same notification stream.

The Content of each notification Data packet is a FaceEventNotification block:

FaceEventNotification := FACE-EVENT-NOTIFICATION-TYPE TLV-LENGTH
                           FaceEventKind
                           FaceId
                           Uri
                           FaceFlags

FaceEventKind := FACE-EVENT-KIND-TYPE TLV-LENGTH
                   nonNegativeInteger

FaceFlags := FACE-FLAGS-TYPE TLV-LENGTH
                   nonNegativeInteger

FaceEventKind indicates the kind of event. Its possible values are:

  • 1: face is created or accepted
  • 2: face is destroyed or closed

FaceFlags is a bitset, providing additional information about the face. The following bits are currently defined:

  • 1: face is local
  • 2: face is created on demand (e.g., as a response to an incoming connection)

TLV-TYPE assignments

Type Assigned value Assigned value (hex)
FaceStatus 128 0x80
NInInterests 144 0x90
NInDatas 145 0x91
NOutInterests 146 0x92
NOutDatas 147 0x93
FaceEventNotification 192 0xc0
FaceEventKind 193 0xc1
FaceFlags 194 0xc2

Updated by Alex Afanasyev almost 11 years ago · 107 revisions