[Nfd-dev] Maximum FIB size

[Junxiao Shi]

Hi Ilane

NFD as of v0.5 has no limit on PIT size. In response to an Interest
flooding attack, it will continue to allocate more PIT entries until the
node is out of memory, after which NFD crashes.
It is an open question on how to manage PIT memory usage. Our current
thinking is to treat this as a congestion control problem. Ideas include
rejecting new Interests with certain probability, and evicting old PIT
entries.
You may watch https://redmine.named-data.net/issues/1301 to receive updates
on this issue.

Yours, Junxiao

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Ilane Karise <kariseilane at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been looking for at the NFD settings and found no configuration
> regarding the size of the PIT table. If there is no configuration option
> regarding the PIT in NFD's configuration file, is there a default size for
> it?
>
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