NLSR: Named Data Link State Routing Protocol

NLSR is a routing protocol for Named Data Networking (NDN) that populates the Routing Information Base (RIB) of an NDN router, such as NFD. NLSR continues to evolve alongside the core NDN protocol.

The main design goal of NLSR is to provide a routing protocol to populate NDN’s FIB. NLSR calculates the routing table using link-state or hyperbolic routing and produces multiple faces for each reachable name prefix in a single authoritative domain. NLSR will continue to evolve over time to include neighbor discovery and to become a full fledged inter-domain routing protocol for NDN. The protocol design is presented in full detail in the NLSR Paper.

NLSR was mainly developed by members of the NSF-sponsored NDN project team. See AUTHORS.md for details.

Bug reports and feedback are highly appreciated and can be made through the NLSR Redmine.

Documentation

• Getting Started with NLSR

• Installation Instructions

• Security Configuration

• Router Configuration

• A beginners guide to installing and testing NLSR on Fedora

• Man pages

• Release Notes

• Release History

Downloading

• Source code git repository

NLSR mailing list

• NLSR Mailing List

• NLSR Mailing List Archives

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Additional resources

• NLSR Wiki

• NLSR Redmine Feature requests and bug reports

• NLSR Paper Detailed explanation of NLSR’s design

• NLSR Developer’s Guide For NLSR development

• API documentation (doxygen)

License

NLSR is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3. See COPYING.md for details.