[Nfd-dev] [Ndn-interest] NDN link protocol

[Dave Oran (oran)]

On Oct 7, 2014, at 9:49 PM, Lan Wang (lanwang) <lanwang at memphis.edu> wrote:

> Self learning can work to a certain degree.  But if you have a large network, it may be better to run a routing protocol.  We have NLSR hello protocol defined for multicast media.  Just need to implement it.  I was just asking how to specify  the Ethernet face in the configuration file.  I suppose just the multicast address.
> 
It’s also fairly crazy to multicast every packet, so there has to be some binding machinery to allow unicast at L2
> Lan
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu> 
> Date: 10/07/2014 7:16 PM (GMT-06:00) 
> To: "Lan Wang (lanwang)" <lanwang at memphis.edu> 
> Cc: "<nfd-dev at lists.cs.ucla.edu>" <nfd-dev at lists.cs.ucla.edu> 
> Subject: Re: [Ndn-interest] NDN link protocol 
> 
> 
> Hi Lan
> 
> There's no "Ethernet tunnel". All Ethernet communication by NFD is multicast.
> 
> Routing protocols have deployment difficulty and runtime overhead. It's generally undesirable to run a routing protocol on Ethernet.
> Local area network should use self-learning forwarding.
> 
> Yours, Junxiao
> 
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Lan Wang (lanwang) <lanwang at memphis.edu> wrote:
> Junxiao,
> 
> What do we need to change in NLSR to support ethernet tunnel?
> 
> Lan
> 
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