[Nfd-dev] Ethernet Multicast in NFD

[Divyashri Bhat]

Hi,

I am trying to use the broadcast strategy in a testbed setup in Ubuntu 12.04 VMs.

The corresponding entry in my config file:

ether
  {
    ; Ethernet multicast settings
    ; NFD creates one Ethernet multicast face per NIC
    mcast yes ; set to 'no' to disable Ethernet multicast, default 'yes'
    mcast_group 01:00:5E:00:17:AA ; Ethernet multicast group
  }

As far as I understand, when I run the following command, I should see corresponding FIB entries for all Ethernet faces.

sudo nfdc register /test/pingserver ether://[01:00:5e:00:17:aa]


However, I have 4 ethernet faces and my nfd-status result looks like this:

  faceid=256 remote=ether://[01:00:5e:00:17:aa] local=dev://eth3 counters={in={185i 0d 11698B} out={0i 0d 0B}} non-local persistent multi-access
  faceid=257 remote=ether://[01:00:5e:00:17:aa] local=dev://eth2 counters={in={0i 0d 0B} out={0i 0d 0B}} non-local persistent multi-access
  faceid=258 remote=ether://[01:00:5e:00:17:aa] local=dev://eth1 counters={in={0i 0d 0B} out={0i 0d 0B}} non-local persistent multi-access
  faceid=259 remote=ether://[01:00:5e:00:17:aa] local=dev://eth0 counters={in={0i 0d 0B} out={0i 0d 0B}} non-local persistent multi-access
  faceid=260 remote=fd://23 local=unix:///run/nfd.sock counters={in={50i 7d 7511B} out={7i 29d 16632B}} local on-demand point-to-point
  faceid=271 remote=fd://26 local=unix:///run/nfd.sock counters={in={3i 0d 137B} out={0i 2d 858B}} local on-demand point-to-point
FIB:
  /localhost/nfd nexthops={faceid=1 (cost=0)}
  /test/pingserver nexthops={faceid=256 (cost=0)}
  /localhost/nfd/rib nexthops={faceid=260 (cost=0)}
RIB:
  /localhost/nfd/rib route={faceid=260 (origin=0 cost=0 ChildInherit)}
  /test/pingserver route={faceid=256 (origin=255 cost=0 ChildInherit)}
Strategy choices:
  /localhost/nfd strategy=/localhost/nfd/strategy/broadcast/%FD%01
  /ndn/broadcast strategy=/localhost/nfd/strategy/broadcast/%FD%01
  /localhost strategy=/localhost/nfd/strategy/broadcast/%FD%01
  /test/pingserver strategy=/localhost/nfd/strategy/broadcast/%FD%01
  / strategy=/localhost/nfd/strategy/broadcast/%FD%01

How can I broadcast this Interest on all Ethernet faces?

Could you help me understand what I am missing here?

Thank you

Regards,
Divyashri Bhat
dbhat at umass.edu<mailto:dbhat at umass.edu>
Graduate Student
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst