NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD)¶

NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD) is a new NDN forwarder under development.
Its first release is scheduled for March 2014.

NFD conforms to these network protocols:

• NDN-TLV packet format
• NDNLP-TLV for Ethernet communication

NFD conforms to these protocols and specifications for local control and management:

• Command Interests
• NFD Local Control Header
• NFD Control Command
• NFD Face Management protocol
• NFD Face Status protocol
• NFD FIB Management protocol
• NFD FIB Enumeration protocol
• NFD Notification mechanism

Miscellaneous

• CCNx protocol
• NFD-related NDN-TLV Type assignments
• NFD Configuration file format
• [[NRD:NRD Prefix Registration protocol]]
• NDN hub discovery procedure

Developer Resources¶

UML diagrams¶

• NFD-UML

platform and libraries¶

• C++ 03, code style guidelines
• Boost >=1.42.0, we use a limited set of Boost libraries
• Boost Unit Test Framework, more information on unit testing
• NDN-CPP-TLV, client library that supports TLV.
• NDNx-TLV, package that translates between TLV and ccnb, to help migrate apps from ccnb to TLV.
• waf build system

development process¶

• gerrit code review, more information:
  • Git and Gerrit in Action
  • Using Gerrit Code Review in an Open Source Project
• gcov code coverage

background knowledge¶

• knowledge about ccnd
• ndnSIM
• NDNFD