NLSR: Named Data Link State Routing Protocol

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Overview

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 RIB. 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.

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

Source releases

The source code and installation instructions are available at the following locations:

• Installation
• Getting started with NLSR
• NLSR GitHub repository

Reporting bugs

Please submit any bug reports or feature requests to the NLSR issue tracker.

Additional resources

• Contributor's Guide
• NLSR Wiki
• NLSR Issue Tracker
• NLSR Mailing List Sign Up
• NLSR Mailing List
• NLSR Mailing List Archives
• NLSR Developer's guide

License

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

NLSR contains third-party software, licensed under the following licenses:

• The waf build system is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license