hicn is an open source implementation of Cisco's hICN. It includes a network stack, that implements
ICN forwarding path in IPv6, and a transport stack that implements two main transport protocols and
-a socket API. The transport protocols provide one reliable transport service implementaton and a
+a socket API. The transport protocols provide one reliable transport service implementation and a
real-time transport service for audio/video media.
## Directory layout
For example start with a clone of the hicn.
+```bash
$ git clone <https://gerrit.fd.io/r/hicn>
$ cd hicn
+```
# Install the virtual environment
+```bash
$ python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv
$ python3 -m virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r docs/etc/requirements.txt
$ cd docs
+```
Which installs all the required applications into its own, isolated,
virtual environment, so as to not interfere with other builds that may
Be sure you are in your hicn/docs directory, since that is where Sphinx will
look for your conf.py file, and build the documents into an index.html file
+```bash
$ make html
+```
# View the results
Build dependencies:
-- VPP 20.01
- - DEB packages (can be found https://packagecloud.io/fdio/release/install):
+- VPP 20.01, Debian packages can be found on [packagecloud](https://packagecloud.io/fdio/release/install):
- vpp
- libvppinfra-dev
- vpp-dev
- hicn-plugin-dev
+- `collectd` and `collectd-dev`: `sudo apt install collectd collectd-dev`
## Getting started
-Collectd needs to be configured in order to use the hICN collectd plugins.
-The configuration can be achieved editing the file '/etc/collectd/collectd.conf'
-and adding the following lines:
+Collectd needs to be configured in order to use the hICN plugins.
+To enable the plugins, add the following lines to `/etc/collectd/collectd.conf`:
+
```
LoadPlugin vpp
LoadPlugin vpp_hicn