[ndnSIM] interface management

Natalya Rozhnova rozhnova.natalya at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 09:32:57 PST 2015


Thanks Alex for you reply.
Ok, let's see what we can do with it

Best,
Natalya

2015-12-03 21:44 GMT+01:00 Alex Afanasyev <aa at cs.ucla.edu>:

> Hi Natalya,
>
> NS-3, as I remember, doesn't provide a mechanism to remove
> channel/netdevice. As such, there is no corresponding part in ndnSIM.
>
> At the same time, the FaceTable code you found is to support tcp/udp faces
> of NFD, which can go up and down any time.  Unfortunately, due to lack of
> manpower, we are still lagging behind implementation of IP-overlay faces in
> ndnSIM that would have functionality you need.  It would be terrific if you
> or somebody else on the list helped with this implementation.
>
> ---
> Alex
>
> > On Dec 3, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Natalya Rozhnova <rozhnova.natalya at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would ask a question about the interface state management.
> > Is there in ndnSIM 2.1 something that do the following:
> > when interface goes physically down (say nomore channel or link or
> something else on physical layer) -> remove the corresponding face from FIB?
> >
> > How (and where) could I check it ? I would need this information in NFD
> forwarder.
> >
> > BTW I found the similar functionnality in FaceTable but didn't really
> get how the information about the interface is checked... Could anybody
> please explain it to me in more details?
> > I also found the function to check whether a face isUp() but it always
> returns true...
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> > Natalya
> >
>
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