NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD)¶

NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD) is a new NDN forwarder under active development.
Initial version 0.1.0 of NFD released on May 8, 2014. Next released is scheduled for mid-June 2014.

NFD implements the following specifications:

• NDN-TLV packet format
• NFD Management protocol
• NFD Configuration file format
• NDNLP-TLV for Ethernet communication
• 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
• Getting Started (wiki) or Getting started (NFD documentation)
• NFD FAQ
• ndn-cxx library, application examples using ndn-cxx library
• Using NDN-CCL with NFD, NDN-CCL

Installation experiences for selected platforms¶

• Install NFD on CentOS
• Cross-compiling NDN projects for home routers (OpenWRT)
• Cross-compiling NDN projects for Raspberry Pi
• Compiling on FreeBSD 10.0

NFD Developer Resources¶

UML diagrams¶

• NFD-UML (outdated)

platform and libraries¶

• C++ 03, code style guidelines
• Boost >=1.48.0, we use a limited set of Boost libraries
• Boost Unit Test Framework, more information on unit testing
• ndn-cxx, Extended version of NDN C++ client library
• waf build system

development process¶

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

background knowledge¶

• knowledge about ccnd
• CCNx protocol
• ndnSIM
• NDNFD