Metis

A CCNx forwarder

Deprecated Code

This repository is no longer active. See the Community ICN project for the latest code. The CICN Code Repository should be used for all new projects.

Quick Start

$ git clone git@github.com:parc-ccnx-archive/Metis.git Metis
$ mkdir Metis.build
$ cd Metis.build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} ../Metis
$ make
$ make test
$ make install

Introduction

Metis is a CCNx Forwarder.

Using Metis

Distillery

Metis is part of CCNx Distillery. You may want to get the software via that distribution if you want to work on CCNx.

Platforms

Metis has been tested in:

• Ubuntu 14.04 (x86_64)
• MacOSX 10.10
• MacOSX 10.11

Other platforms and architectures may work.

Dependencies

Build dependencies:

• c99 ( clang / gcc )
• CMake 3.4

Basic dependencies:

• OpenSSL
• pthreads
• Libevent
• LongBow
• Libparc
• Libccnx-common
• Libccnx-transport-rta

Documentation dependencies:

• Doxygen

Getting Started

Metis is built using cmake. You will need to have CMake 3.4 installed in order to build it.

Download Metis
$ git clone git@github.com:parc-ccnx-archive/Metis.git Metis

Create build directory
$ mkdir Metis.build
$ cd Metis.build

Prepare the build, give an install directory
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} ../Metis

Compile the software
$ make

Run unit tests
$ make test

Install the software
$ make install

This will place the Metis binaries in the bin directory of ${INSTALL_DIR}.

Using Metis

Metis is a set of binary executables that are used to run a CCNx forwarder instance. Please refer to the Metis documentation for detailed information. You can also try the -h flags of the executables

• metis_daemon -h
• metis_control -h

Contact

• Metis GitHub
• CCNx Website
• CCNx Mailing List

License

This software is distributed under the following license:

Copyright (c) 2013,2014,2015,2016, Xerox Corporation (Xerox) and Palo Alto Research Center, Inc (PARC)
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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