[Nfd-dev] A problem about ethernet unicast

[Alex Afanasyev]

> On Sep 25, 2017, at 3:54 PM, FIXED-TERM Tan Andong (CR/AEX1) <fixed-term.Andong.Tan at de.bosch.com> wrote:
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> Hallo all,
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> thank you very much for all the contributions that you have made for NFD and NDN!
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> I am currently working on a setup (two Ubuntu machines connected via Ethernet) to execute the NFD without IP and I am facing  some problems when trying to execute the NFD using Ethernet unicast.
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> I configured NFD (using the configuration file) just to use ether faces for multicast communication (disabled TCP and UDP) -> and there were no problems to communicate with other NFD instances in my network. But in my scenario, I just want to use unicast by connecting multiple NFD instances together manually. So I used the nfdc tool to create a new ether face using the address of my other system.
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> I started NDN using “sudo nfd start”
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> When I try to use “nfdc face create ether://[98:de:d0:1c:d1:46]”
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> The nfdc tool promts the following error message:
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> Error 604 when creating face: unsupported protocol
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> When I configured the NFDs using multicast, I can see from the logs, that there were faces created in the scheme of “ether://[MULTICAST-MAC]”. It is just not working by using nfdc to add a new face for using unicast.
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> My machines are running Ubuntu 16.04 and I am using NFD version 0.5.
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> Can anybody give me some hints what I am missing, please? Thanks in advance!
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Creating unicast ethernet faces using nfdc is coming in the upcoming release.  For now, you can compile the latest dev version from source (you will need to completely uninstall any NFD, ndn-cxx packages that you installed and then install the latest ndn-cxx and NFD).

--
Alex

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> Best regards
> Andong Tan
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