Forwarder Status¶

Forwarder Status is a module of NFD Management protocol.
It publishes version information and global counters of the forwarder.

Forwarder Status is published as a single Data packet under ndn:/localhost/nfd/status.

Consumer should send Interest ndn:/localhost/nfd/status, MustBeFresh=yes.

The Content of the response Data packet is a sequence of these blocks:

• NfdApiVersion nonNegativeInteger: NFD API version
• SoftwareVersion UTF-8 string: NFD software version; this is usually same as nfd --version output, but the daemon MAY hide its version and return an empty string
• StartTimestamp nonNegativeInteger: UNIX timestamp (in milliseconds) when NFD starts
• CurrentTimestamp nonNegativeInteger: UNIX timestamp (in milliseconds) of current time
• NNameTreeEntries nonNegativeInteger: number of NameTree entries
• NFibEntries nonNegativeInteger: number of FIB entries
• NPitEntries nonNegativeInteger: number of PIT entries
• NMeasurementsEntries nonNegativeInteger: number of Measurements entries
• NCsEntries nonNegativeInteger: number of CS entries
• NInInterests nonNegativeInteger: number of incoming Interests processed since forwarder starts
• NInDatas nonNegativeInteger: number of incoming Datas processed since forwarder starts
• NOutInterests nonNegativeInteger: number of outgoing Interests processed since forwarder starts
• NOutDatas nonNegativeInteger: number of outgoing Datas processed since forwarder starts

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