NFD Management protocol¶

NFD Management protocol allows users, tools, and control plane programs to retrieve, monitor, and alter NFD forwarder state.

Basic mechanisms¶

NFD Management protocol uses Interest-Data exchange.

Status Dataset defines how status information about a collection of entities is encoded, segmented, and published as Data packets.
This mechanism, as well as simple Interest-Data exchange, is useful for retrieving forwarder state.

Notification Stream is a way to get updates about events happening in the forwarder.
This mechanism is useful for monitoring forwarder state.

Control Command defines the request and response format of commands that can alter forwarder state, and how these commands should be signed and authenticated.
This mechanism is useful for altering forwarder state.

Modules¶

ForwarderStatus publishes version information and global counters of the forwarder.

Face Management 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

FIB Management provides:

• commands to insert, update, and delete FIB entries and nexthop records
• a dataset of FIB entries and nexthop records

Strategy Choice Management provides:

• commands to choose the forwarding strategy for a namespace

RIB Management provides:

• commands to register and unregister routes
• commands to advertise and withdraw prefix with a routing protocol