<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Teng,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">a solution is to add the information as an NDNLPv2 tag. You can take a look at the following commits, where I have done the same thing for the HopCount tag for the latest ndnSIM release:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/ndnSIM/commit/73df9f587e1c16c4f67a0053fe29b68f523ff138" class="">https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/ndnSIM/commit/73df9f587e1c16c4f67a0053fe29b68f523ff138</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/ndn-cxx/commit/e53204419c51356dab70e0e5450ff5dcf587827a" class="">https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/ndn-cxx/commit/e53204419c51356dab70e0e5450ff5dcf587827a</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/NFD/commit/d0abae38024a6aecf6f956f4bbea36f4a9ff6d6f" class="">https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/NFD/commit/d0abae38024a6aecf6f956f4bbea36f4a9ff6d6f</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope that this helps,</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis</span><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">Personal Website: </span><a href="http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/" class="">http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/</a><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">Internet Research Laboratory</span><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">Computer Science Department</span><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">UCLA</span></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 27, 2016, at 8:00 AM, Teng Liang <<a href="mailto:philoliang@email.arizona.edu" class="">philoliang@email.arizona.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi everybody,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are there any easy approaches to attaching arbitrary information to Interest/Data packet, so that forwarding strategy can read? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As the information may change hop-by-hop, it is improper to be put in Name. One possible solution is customized tag. How much effort to create one?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Teng</div></div><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>