[Ndn-interest] NLSR dissemination of FIB updates

[Salvatore Signorello]

Hi Obaid,
On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 11:45 -0500, Syed Obaid Amin wrote:
> Hi Salvatore,
> 
> 
> Here is a brief history that maybe of interest to you. nlsr for ccnx
> can be controlled by CLI or remotely. It does so by listening on a
> port on which it accepts commands and process them. The '-p <port
> number>' switch was introduced to change the default port on which it
> listens for this.  
thank you a lot for pointing this out, I will keep it in mind if I need
this functionality.
> nlsr for nfd doesn't support this feature. The consensus was to use
> Interest/Data model for the communication between nfd and routing
> protocols(like nlsr). Plus, this functionality should be provided to
> all routing protocols (not just nlsr).
That's on track and I'm agree with it.
>  As a result, we added two new commands, advertise  and withdraw in
> the RibManager, which will allow to specify the routing protocol for
> disseminating the name prefixes. However, these commands are not
> supported yet.
> 
I hope that they will grow out soon. Thank you a lot for the history.
Best,
Salvo 
> 
> Regards,
> Obaid
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Salvatore Signorello
> <unict.signorello at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Thank you both,
>         
>         I'm looking at the following documentation to get know the RIB
>         management
>         http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nfd/wiki/Management
>         , if you want to point me more resources, I would be glad.
>         
>         If I grep the NFD main directory looking for 'advertise', I
>         find no
>         trace of this command, where should it be?
>         
>         Best,
>         Salvo
>         On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 06:55 -0700, Junxiao Shi wrote:
>         > Hi Hoque
>         >
>         > Instead of opening an "API client port", I suggest NLSR to
>         use an
>         > Interest-Data based protocol.
>         >
>         > NFD RIB Management protocol contains "advertise" and
>         "unadvertise"
>         > commands that are probably related to this purpose.
>         >
>         > Yours, Junxiao
>         >
>         > On Aug 5, 2014 6:51 AM, "A K M Mahmudul Hoque (ahoque1)"
>         > <ahoque1 at memphis.edu> wrote:
>         > >  - as option for launching the nlsr daemon they provide
>         '-p' to
>         > specify
>         > > > the "port where api client will connect" (nlsr's usage
>         output). I
>         > looked
>         > > > at the code, but I'm not able to find out if they've
>         already
>         > > > implemented/used this functionality. Could you please
>         provide me
>         > any
>         > > > hint about its aim/meaning?
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > --- It will be implemented in future. The aim of this one
>         to tell
>         > NLSR to advertise prefix,
>         > > --- or even adding neighbors without taking down NLSR. Not
>         only that
>         > this API can be
>         > > --- used to remove old prefixes link that are no longer
>         valid. The
>         > objective is to do those
>         > > --- things without taking shutting down NLSR
>         >
>         
>         
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