Configuration File Format » History » Version 22
A K M Mahmudul Hoque, 05/13/2014 01:22 PM
1 | 1 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ## Configuration File Format |
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3 | NLSR is configured using an [INFO file](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/doc/html/boost_propertytree/parsers.html#boost_propertytree.parsers.info_parser). |
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5 | ## Example configuration |
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7 | 16 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; the general section contains all the general settings for router |
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9 | general |
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11 | 17 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; mandatory configuration command section network, site and router |
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13 | network /ndn ; name of the network the router belongs to in ndn URI format |
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14 | site /memphis.edu ; name of the site the router belongs to in ndn URI format |
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15 | router /cs/pollux ; name of the network the router belongs to in ndn URI format |
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17 | 16 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; lsa-refresh-time is the time in seconds, after which router will refresh its LSAs |
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19 | 9 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | lsa-refresh-time 1800 ; default value 1800. Valid values 240-7200 |
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21 | ; log-level is to set the levels of log for NLSR |
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23 | log-level INFO ; default value INFO, valid value DEBUG, INFO |
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24 | } |
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26 | 18 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; the neighbors section contains the configuration for router's neighbors and hello's behavior |
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28 | neighbors |
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30 | 20 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; in case hello interest timed out, router will try 'hello-retries' times at 'hello-time-out' |
31 | 18 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; seconds interval before giving up for any neighbors (deciding link is down) |
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33 | 18 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | hello-retries 3 ; interest retries number in integer. Default value 3 |
34 | 16 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; valid values 1-10 |
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36 | 22 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | hello-timeout 1 ; interest time out value for hello interest. Default |
37 | 20 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; value 1, Valid values 1-15 |
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39 | hello-interval 60 ; hello interest sending interval in seconds. Default value 60 |
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40 | ; valid values 30-90 |
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41 | 9 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; neighbor command is used to configure router's neighbor. Each neighbor will need |
42 | 1 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; one block of neighbor command |
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44 | 1 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | neighbor |
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46 | 12 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | name /ndn/memphis.edu/cs/castor ; name prefix of the neighbor router consists |
47 | ; of network, site-name and router-name |
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49 | 22 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | face-uri udp://castor.cs.memphis.edu ; face Uri of the face connected to the neighbor |
50 | 12 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | link-cost 20.6 ; cost of the connecting link to neighbor |
51 | 1 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | } |
52 | } |
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54 | ; the hyperbolic section contains the configuration settings of enabling a router to calculate |
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55 | 3 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; routing table using [hyperbolic routing table calculation](http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1266) method |
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57 | hyperbolic |
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59 | 9 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; commands in this section follows a strict order |
60 | 2 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; the switch is used to set hyperbolic routing calculation in NLSR |
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62 | 9 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | state off ; default value 'off', set value 'on' to enable hyperbolic routing table |
63 | 4 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; calculation which turns link state routing 'off'. set value to 'dry-run" |
64 | 9 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; to test hyperbolic routing and compare with link state routing. |
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67 | 9 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | radius 123.456 ; radius of the router in hyperbolic coordinate system |
68 | angle 1.45 ; angle of the router in hyperbolic coordinate system |
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72 | ; the fib section is used to configure fib entry's type to ndn FIB updated by NLSR |
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74 | fib |
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76 | ; the max-faces-per-prefix is used to limit the number of faces for each name prefixes |
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77 | ; by NLSR in ndn FIB |
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79 | max-faces-per-prefix 3 ; default value 0. Valid value 0-60. By default (value 0) NLSR adds |
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80 | ; all available faces for each reachable name prefixes in NDN FIB |
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82 | } |
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84 | 14 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; the advertising section contains the configuration settings of the name prefixes |
85 | ; hosted by this router |
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87 | advertising |
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89 | 21 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | ; the prefix is used to advertised name from the router. To advertise name prefixes |
90 | ; configure one block of prefix configuration command for every name |
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92 | prefix /ndn/edu/memphis/cs/netlab ; name in ndn URI format |
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93 | prefix /ndn/edu/memphis/sports/basketball |
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94 | 5 | A K M Mahmudul Hoque | } |