NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD)¶

NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD) is a new NDN forwarder under active development.

NFD implements the following specifications:

• NDN packet format
• NFD Management protocol
• NFD configuration file format
• NDNLPv2: a link protocol for NDN
• Namespace-based Scope Control: /localhost and /localhop

Other specifications:

• NDN hub discovery procedure to discover hub nodes on the NDN testbed.

User Knowledge Base¶

• NFD overview
• NFD FAQ
• ndn-cxx library, application examples using ndn-cxx library
• NFD autoconfiguration
• Why NDN packet is limited to 8800 octets

Installation experiences for selected platforms¶

• Officially Supported Operating Systems
  • Ubuntu Linux with PPA
  • Installation from source on macOS and Ubuntu Linux
  • CentOS Stream
  • Debian
• Other Operating Systems
  • Fedora
  • Unofficial Debian APT repository
  • FreeBSD
• Virtualized/Containerized Environments
  • Windows Subsystem for Linux
• Embedded Devices (probably outdated)
  • OpenWrt and DD-WRT home routers
  • Raspberry Pi
  • NDN on Galileo (Intel's x86 Arduino-certified development board)

NFD Developer Resources¶

Contributing Code

Platform and libraries¶

• C++17, code style guidelines
• Boost >= 1.65.1
• ndn-cxx, Extended version of NDN C++ client library
• waf build system

Development process¶

• Learn Git Branching game
• How to Write a Git Commit Message
• gerrit code review, more information:
  • GerritJenkinsGit on OpenStack
  • Gerrit on MediaWiki
  • Git and Gerrit in Action
  • Using Gerrit Code Review in an Open Source Project
  • Gerrit Code Review - A Quick Introduction
  • git-review
• Code Coverage
• Integration Tests

HOWTOs for n00bs¶

• HOWTO assign a Redmine issue to yourself
• HOWTO clone the NFD repository
• HOWTO checkout two pending commits to local machine
• HOWTO see details of Jenkins build error
• HOWTO reply to a review comment on Gerrit
• HOWTO write a bug report effectively
• HOWTO solve "undefined symbol" error
• HOWTO update NFD devguide
• How I Setup my NFD Development Machine

Advanced¶

• Environment to analyze coredumps of NFD and other NDN apps

Historical information¶

• NDN on OS X with Homebrew
• Knowledge about ccnd
• CCNx protocol
• NDNFD

Misc¶

• NDN Team License Boilerplate (NFD)
• NDN Team License Boilerplate (ndn-cxx)
• NDN Team License Boilerplate (NLSR)
• ndnSIM