Getting Started with NLSR

Getting Source

• Github NLSR repository

Installation instruction

• Installation

Installing

To install NLSR from source:

• Install ndn-cxx according to ndn-cxx installation instructions
• Install nfd according to nfd installation instructions
• Install NLSR following these instructions

Configuration

After installing NLSR from source, you need to create a configuration file for NLSR. Please take a look at nlsr.conf for a sample configuration. For details on configuring a router, please refer to build network topology and for security configuration please refer to NLSR's security configuration

Running

Run nlsr with the following command:

nlsr

NLSR will look for the default configuration file, nlsr.conf, in the current directory.

You can also run nlsr -f options as follows with the absolute path of the configuration file:

nlsr -f /nlsr/nlsr.conf