[Nfd-dev] nfdc implicit face creation problems

Davide Pesavento davide.pesavento at lip6.fr
Tue Jan 31 09:53:23 PST 2017


On Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 12:46 PM Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu>
wrote:

>
> I propose dropping implicit face creation feature during nfdc refactoring:
> (1) nfdc face create is the only subcommand that can create a face.
> (2) nfdc route add and nfdc route remove (replacements of nfdc register
> and nfdc unregister) do not implicitly create faces. They can accept
> either FaceId or FaceUri. When specifying FaceUri, we query the existing
> faces whose RemoteUri matches the specified FaceUri. If one exact match is
> found, that face is used. If no face with that RemoteUri is found, an error
> message is printed. If two or more matches are found, an error message is
> printed with the list of matched faces, and the operator can re-run the
> command with one of the FaceIds from that list.
>
> This is consistent with iproute2 programs, where you must explicitly
> create an interface before using it in IP routing tables.
>

I support this proposal.

Thanks,
Davide
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