NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD)¶

NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD) is a new NDN forwarder under active development.
NFD 0.2.0 was released on August 25, 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
• NFD FAQ
• ndn-cxx library, application examples using ndn-cxx library

Installation experiences for selected platforms¶

• Officially Supported Operating Systems
  • OS X with MacPorts
  • Ubuntu with PPA
  • Source Installation on OS X or Ubuntu
• Other Operating Systems
  • CentOS
  • Fedora 20
  • FreeBSD 10
• Virtualization Environments
  • Vagrant
  • Docker
• Embedded Devices
  • OpenWrt and DD-WRT home routers
  • Raspberry Pi

NFD Developer Resources¶

UML diagrams¶

• NFD-UML (outdated)

platform and libraries¶

• C++ 11, 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¶

• Learn Git Branching game
• 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
  • git-review
• gcov code coverage
• IntegratedTests

background knowledge¶

• knowledge about ccnd
• CCNx protocol
• ndnSIM
• NDNFD