[Ndn-interest] NDN over TCP/IP

[Patrick Zidek]

Hello there,

I'm working on a final year project that is looking at implementing NDN
within Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). Just an educational scenario,
nothing big. But I've been running into many issues and am losing my mind
at this point.

The idea was to use ndnOverIP to see if NDN could be implemented with the
existing TCP/IP-enabled systems in CDNs.

A simple design:

   - VM1 requests content via TCP/IP
   - This request arrives at VM2 which only uses NDN (with ndnOverIP to
   translate to and from TCP/IP)
   - Request is forwarded onto VM3 which is the CDN server and only
   communicates with TCP/IP

The functionality, caching and improvement (or decrease) in performance
would be looked at and discussed as part of the project. (It is now
expected that even if it worked, it probably wouldn't bring any good
results, but it's still worth looking into this, and also I can't change
the project topic anymore.)

However, it turns out that ndnOverIP was developed for the ndn-cxx 0.7.0
and 0.7.1 versions and it wouldn't work with the newest version of ndn-cxx.

So over the past few weeks, I have tried my very best to install either
ndn-cxx 0.7.0 or 0.7.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04. I've been following the
old manuals for those versions and without luck. There are many compilation
errors. There were some incompatibility issues, where I'm guessing it
didn't like the newer versions of packages, I tried to address this, but
the installation never finishes successfully, there will always be some
compilation errors.

This means I am unable to bring ndnOverIP into the game...

I was wondering, would anyone by any chance have a VM where ndn-cxx (and
potentially also NFD - as pretty sure I need that too) would be running on
versions 0.7.0 or 0.7.1 so I could just make a copy of it and use it...?

Or would anyone be able to suggest if there is some other TCP/IP to NDN and
vice versa translation tool that could work...? I'm pretty much lost and my
university doesn't know how to help me either given that although it's been
years it's still an emerging technology.

Thank you for any help at all.

Kind regards

*Patrick Zidek*
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