<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Peter</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t understand why NdnCon instances can “magically” discover each other.</div><div class="">A standard NFD installation should create a multi-access Ethernet face on every multicast-capable network interface. However, it will not register any prefix onto these Ethernet faces, so these faces will not be used for communication.</div><div class="">Does your setup have another program that registers a prefix onto the Ethernet faces?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From NFD point of view, there’s no difference between wired Ethernet and WiFi, because Ethernet runs over WiFi.</div><div class="">However, some access points will block multicast traffic transmitted by a wireless stations, or even block all traffic between wireless stations.</div><div class="">You’ll need to configure your access point to permit multicast traffic among wireless stations.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yours, Junxiao</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 24, 2016, at 6:37 PM, Gusev, Peter <<a href="mailto:peter@remap.ucla.edu" class="">peter@remap.ucla.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="">Once we tested NDN over Ethernet on our local “testbed” - three laptops with NFD connected to the same network - after creating ethernet faces,
<i class="">ndncon </i>instances running on each machine “magically” discovered each other and were able to communicate via chat/audio/video.</div>
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<div class="">However, I’m curious about feasibility of getting similar effect on the local WiFi networks (and whether autoconfig can help with that or such discovery should become a part of autoconfig):</div>
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<div class="">Say, I have three laptops with NFD connected to the same WiFi network with no Internet access. If I run autoconfig on all three laptops - will they “magically” discover each other and create routes? If so, which routes will be created?</div>
<div class="">If no, what precludes from implementing such “local autodiscovery"?</div>
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