<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">having an ad hoc face allows you to forward an Interest through the same face it was received. Not sure if it does anything other than that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you care about being able to forward an Interest through the same face it was received, what I mentioned on #2 should be enough (which has nothing to do with modifying the sample configuration file of NFD). You just comment out 3 lines of code that prevent NFD from forwarding the Interest through the same face it was received.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</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 class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 26, 2018, at 9:57 AM, Jin Yang <<a href="mailto:yjinking@mail.ustc.edu.cn" class="">yjinking@mail.ustc.edu.cn</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div yne-bulb-block="paragraph" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75;" class="">Dear All,</div><div yne-bulb-block="paragraph" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75;" class="">We are doing the simulation experiment about NDN based MANET in ndnSIM.</div><div yne-bulb-block="paragraph" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75;" class="">1. We are confused about the "LinkType". The default LinkType in ndnSIM is '<span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">point-to-point'</span>. Could you please tell me more about 'ad-hoc' LinkType? its effect during forwarding？will it influence FIB?</div><div yne-bulb-block="paragraph" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75;" class="">2. How can we change LinkType to 'ad-hoc'? Spyridon mentioned this problem in <a href="https://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/pipermail/ndnsim/2018-September/004961.html" target="_blank" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 56, 132); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/pipermail/ndnsim/2018-September/004961.html</span></a><span style="color: rgb(57, 57, 57);" class="">. But we are not sure about the specific approaches. modifying in NFD/nfd.conf.sample.in？</span></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>