[Nfd-dev] [EXT] Installation of ndn components

[Junxiao Shi]

Hi Vazoumana

ndnSIM is unmaintained.
It can be considered as a historic codebase that requires period-correct
operating systems and compilers, e.g. Ubuntu 20.04.
For system security, you should not expose the operating system to the
Internet:

   1. Install ndnSIM in a virtual machine only.
   2. Block all network connections into and out of the virtual machine.
   3. Deploy an HTTP proxy so that the virtual machine can download
   packages.


NFD is only passively maintained.
While it is possible to install both ndnSIM and NFD in the system, this is
not recommended due to vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 20.04.

Most of the recent innovations are in this codebase:
https://github.com/named-data/ndnd
You should use ndnd for new deployments and experiments.

Both ndnSIM and NFD are single-threaded for most workloads, so they need
high clock rate processors.
ndnd is multi-threaded in most modes, so they can work with the typical
server processors that have many cores of moderate clock rate.

Yours, Junxiao

On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM Vazoumana FOFANA via Nfd-dev <
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> I'm vazoumana fofana, network and system engeener in French laboratory.
> As new user, i enjoy joining NDN community.
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> I have 2-3 questions :
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> - According to website, ndnsim seems to be not supported yet on
> ubuntu24. Is it an ongoing task ?
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> - is there any inconvenients to install ndnsim and NDN chain ( NFD,
> ndn-cxx) on same node ? is there any hardware requirements (RAM,
> storage, CPU, cores) ?
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> - On mailman interface, i didn't see any field to fill in order to
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