[Nfd-dev] How to send command interests from NFD to NLSR?

[Lan Wang (lanwang)]

I may be missing something, but shouldn't NLSR just listen on that prefix /localhost/nlsr and It will receive any interest with that name (whether it is from NFD or not)

Lan (on phone)

> On Feb 21, 2017, at 5:33 PM, Nick Gordon <nmgordon at memphis.edu> wrote:
> 
> Second part of my problem (figured I could make use of the lists for
> once...)
> 
> I'm getting a very strange crash when I issue
> "nfdc register -o 65 /ndn/endhost 259", NFD on that router crashes. I'm
> doing this to simulate a successful propagation into the router. My
> Readvertise module seems to be doing it's job, and then the last thing
> the log indicates is getting executed is:
> 
> m_controller.start<ndn::nfd::RibRegisterCommand>(ControlParameters()
>                              .setName(rr.getPrefix())
>                              .setOrigin(ndn::nfd::ROUTE_ORIGIN_CLIENT),
>    [=] (const ControlParameters& cp) { successCb(); },
>    [=] (const ControlResponse& cr) { failureCb(cr.getText()); },
>    ndn::nfd::CommandOptions().setPrefix("/localhost/nlsr"));
> 
> The aim of this is to send a RibRegisterCommand, registering the prefix
> "/ndn/endhost" toward /localhost/nlsr. Then, because NFD has
> "/localhost/nlsr" in its FIB, it should pass it off to NLSR, which
> inserts it into the NPT and away we go.
> 
> I've currently instantiated the destination with the same controller
> that the RibManager has. This controller's face is created with internal
> NFD face. I *don't* think this is the correct approach, but I didn't
> know exactly how to send something to NLSR from NFD.
> 
> The last 50 lines of the log are in this gist:
> https://gist.github.com/gorgonical/219bfa6025a76ed98f11f9c5defa9d5d
> 
> It kind of looks to me like it's putting the data on the Face, which it
> then receives from that Face, and we get into some kind of loop.
> 
> -Nick
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