[ndnSIM] Connecting ndnSIM to real devices (or Docker containers)

[Spyridon Mastorakis]

Hi,

Off the top of my head, I am not sure how exactly to do that. I have worked with some researchers that have done something similar though. You can probably take a look at the evaluation section of this paper and contact the first author to ask:

http://rehmatkhan.com/accepted/FGCS-accepted.pdf

Thanks,

Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Nebraska, Omaha
Peter Kiewit Institute Room 175A
https://sites.google.com/site/spyridonmastorakis

On Apr 26, 2020, at 6:56 AM, Dóka János <doka at gsuite.tmit.bme.hu<mailto:doka at gsuite.tmit.bme.hu>> wrote:

Hello everyone,

I would like to connect two or more Docker containers with a simulated network in ndnSIM. Or what would be better if I could connect two android phones to ndnSIM and the communication between the phones would go through the simulated network. Is it possible?
I manage to connect the containers with ndnSIM using tap interfaces (based on this: https://www.nsnam.org/doxygen/tap-csma-virtual-machine_8cc_source.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nsnam.org_doxygen_tap-2Dcsma-2Dvirtual-2Dmachine-5F8cc-5Fsource.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=Cu5g146wZdoqVuKpTNsYHeFX_rg6kWhlkLF8Eft-wwo&r=eI5Bh74ovG-uIXQ5ksQETSPgRFzmJXjIZXneCqw580E&m=EfzSRZPyhGbEFCW-Kjyi3GTaoiFkf2vjjFkoKxE48OY&s=5L-_ptGUidJVXMlIw-4wNEaxQjv57Wf3rrCge2SgToo&e=>). I connected one Docker container to NDN node A, and another to node B. I installed NDN Forwarding Daemon on the containers and I added the mac address of a node in ndnSIM as an NDN face (and a route) with "nfdc" command. Then if I send NDNPing with this route, I see some traffic in ndnSIM but only on csma NetDevice interfaces (created with tap interfaces), but I can't forward this traffic to another ndnSIM node.
I will appreciate your help!

Best wishes,
Janos

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