[Nfd-dev] [Ndn-interest] NDN link protocol

[Junxiao Shi]

Dear folks

If a local area network is using regular Ethernet (learn paths from source
MAC address) today, self-learning can work on it.
Self-learning idea also has been tested on a 16-server fat tree topology.

It's not crazy to multicast every packet.
Switches are expected to understand NDN Names and act as NDN forwarders; at
physical layer there's no difference between multicast and unicast.

Yours, Junxiao

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Dave Oran (oran) <oran at cisco.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 7, 2014, at 9:49 PM, Lan Wang (lanwang) <lanwang at memphis.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Self learning can work to a certain degree.  But if you have a large
> network, it may be better to run a routing protocol.  We have NLSR hello
> protocol defined for multicast media.  Just need to implement it.  I was
> just asking how to specify  the Ethernet face in the configuration file.  I
> suppose just the multicast address.
> >
> It’s also fairly crazy to multicast every packet, so there has to be some
> binding machinery to allow unicast at L2
> > Lan
>
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