NDN Essential Tools

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ndn-tools is a collection of basic tools for Named Data Networking. Tools in this collection include:

  • peek: transmit a single Interest/Data packet between a consumer and a producer
  • chunks: segmented file transfer between a consumer and a producer
  • ping: test reachability between two NDN nodes
  • dump: capture and analyze live traffic on an NDN network
  • dissect: inspect the TLV structure of an NDN packet
  • dissect-wireshark: Wireshark extension to inspect the TLV structure of NDN packets

Installation

See INSTALL.md for build instructions.

Reporting bugs

Please submit any bug reports or feature requests to the ndn-tools issue tracker.

Contributing

We greatly appreciate contributions to ndn-tools. If you are new to the NDN software community, please read README-dev.md and the Contributor's Guide to get started.

License

ndn-tools is an open source project licensed under the GPL version 3. See COPYING.md for more information.