[Nfd-dev] NFD breaking change: TCP transport

[Junxiao Shi]

Hi JeffT

This Change is not included in 0.4.0-beta2 released earlier this week.

This Change will be included in 0.4.0. Release date and deployment date are undetermined.

Yours, Junxiao

> On Oct 30, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Thompson, Jeff <jefft0 at remap.ucla.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Junxiao,
> 
> When will this change be deployed on the test bed?
> 
> Thanks,
> - Jeff T
> 
> From: Nfd-dev <nfd-dev-bounces at lists.cs.ucla.edu <mailto:nfd-dev-bounces at lists.cs.ucla.edu>> on behalf of Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu <mailto:shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu>>
> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 10:06:00
> To: nfd-dev <nfd-dev at lists.cs.ucla.edu <mailto:nfd-dev at lists.cs.ucla.edu>>, NDN Lib <ndn-lib at lists.cs.ucla.edu <mailto:ndn-lib at lists.cs.ucla.edu>>
> Subject: [Nfd-dev] NFD breaking change: TCP transport
> 
> Dear folks
> 
> A breaking change is coming to NFD soon: LocalControlHeader is no longer supported on TCP transport.
> This change will merge after Nov 01 12:00 UTC.
> 
> If your application or library connects to the local NFD via TCP tunnel and uses one of the LocalControlHeader feature, it will stop working after this change.
> 
> To fix your application or library: use the equivalent NDNLPv2 <http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nfd/wiki/NDNLPv2> feature.
> For now, faces/enable-local-control ControlCommand is still supported, but calling this command enables all LocalControlHeader-equivalent features (i.e. all of IncomingFaceId, NextHopFaceId, CachePolicy), and the packet format would be NDNLPv2 instead of LocalControlHeader.
> Even if your application does not use LocalControlHeader previously, it may start receiving NDNLPv2 packets if an Interest brings back a Nack packet.
> 
> You can test your projects with NFD Change http://gerrit.named-data.net/2495 <http://gerrit.named-data.net/2495> and verify it works.
> 
> Yours, Junxiao

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