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# NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD) 

 **NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD)** is a new NDN forwarder under active development. 
 NFD 0.4.0 was released on December 31, 2015. 

 NFD implements the following specifications: 

 * [NDN packet format](http://named-data.net/doc/ndn-tlv/) 
 * [[Management|NFD Management protocol]] 
 * [[ConfigFileFormat|NFD Configuration file format]] 
 * [[NDNLPv2|NDNLPv2 is a link protocol for Named Data Networking]] 
 * [[ScopeControl|Namespace-based Scope Control]]: /localhost and /localhop 

 Other specifications: 

 * [[HubDiscovery|NDN hub discovery procedure]] to discover hub nodes on the NDN testbed. 

 ## User Knowledge Base 

 * [NFD overview](http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/current/README.html) 
 * [NFD FAQ](http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/current/FAQ.html) 
 * [ndn-cxx library](http://named-data.net/doc/ndn-cxx/current/), [application examples using ndn-cxx library](http://named-data.net/doc/ndn-cxx/current/examples.html) 
 * [[NFD autoconfiguration]] 

 ### Installation experiences for selected platforms 

 * Officially Supported Operating Systems 
     * [[OS X with Homebrew]] 
     * [OS X with MacPorts](http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/current/INSTALL.html#install-nfd-using-the-ndn-macports-repository-on-os-x) 
     * [Ubuntu with PPA](http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/current/INSTALL.html#install-nfd-using-the-ndn-ppa-repository-on-ubuntu-linux) 
     * [Source Installation on OS X or Ubuntu](http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/current/INSTALL.html#building-from-source) 
 * Other Operating Systems 
     * [[Install-centos|CentOS]] 
     * [[Install-Fedora|Fedora]] 
     * [[Compiling on FreeBSD 10.0|FreeBSD 10]] 
     * [[OS X 10.8]] 
     * [Windows](https://yoursunny.com/p/NFD-Windows/) 
 * Virtualization Environments 
     * [Vagrant](https://github.com/named-data-education/ndn-with-vagrant) 
     * [Docker](https://github.com/named-data-education/ndn-with-docker) 
 * Embedded Devices 
     * [[ndn-embedded:Cross-compiling NDN projects for home routers|OpenWrt and DD-WRT home routers]] 
     * [[ndn-embedded:Cross-compiling NDN projects for Raspberry Pi|Raspberry Pi]] 
     * [NDN on Galileo (Intel's x86 Arduino-certified development board)](http://schwannden.gitbooks.io/ndn-on-galileo/) 

 ## NFD Developer Resources 

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 ### UML diagrams 
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 [[Contributing Code]] 

 ### platform and libraries 
 * [C++ 11](http://en.cppreference.com/w/), [[CodeStyle|code style guidelines]] 
 * [[Boost|Boost >=1.48.0]] 
 * [Boost Unit Test Framework](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/test/doc/html/index.html), more information on [[UnitTesting|unit testing]] 
 * [ndn-cxx](https://named-data.net/doc/ndn-cxx/), Extended version of NDN C++ client library  
 * [waf build system](https://code.google.com/p/waf/) 

 ### development process 
 * [Learn Git Branching game](http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/index.html) 
 * [gerrit code review](http://gerrit.named-data.net/), more information: 
   * [GerritJenkinsGit on OpenStack](https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GerritJenkinsGit) 
   * [Gerrit on MediaWiki](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit) 
   * [Git and Gerrit in Action](https://www.jboss.org/dms/judcon/presentations/Boston2011/JUDConBoston2011_day1track2session6.pdf) 
   * [Using Gerrit Code Review in an Open Source Project](http://redmine.named-data.net/attachments/download/6/gerrit-slides-130203050220-phpapp01.pdf) 
   * [Gerrit Code Review - A Quick Introduction](https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.8.1/intro-quick.html) 
   * [git-review](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/git-review) 
 * [[CodeCoverage|gcov code coverage]] 
 * [[IntegrationTests]] 

 ### HOWTOs for n00b 
 * [HOWTO assign a Redmine issue to yourself](http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/pipermail/nfd-dev/2015-February/000801.html) 
 * [HOWTO clone the NFD repository](http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/pipermail/nfd-dev/2015-April/001023.html) 
 * [HOWTO checkout two pending commits to local machine](http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/pipermail/nfd-dev/2015-June/001147.html) 
 * [HOWTO see details of Jenkins build error](http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/pipermail/nfd-dev/2016-February/001550.html) 

 ### background knowledge 

 * [[ccndKnowledge|knowledge about ccnd]] 
 * [CCNx protocol](http://www.ccnx.org/releases/ccnx-0.7.2/doc/technical/CCNxProtocol.html) 
 * [ndnSIM](http://ndnsim.net/) 
 * [NDNFD](https://github.com/NDN-Routing/NDNFD) 

 ### misc 

 * [[NDN Team License Boilerplate (NFD)]] 
 * [[ndn-cxx:NDN Team License Boilerplate (ndn-cxx)]] 
 * [[nlsr:NDN Team License Boilerplate (NLSR)]]