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libnetconf – The NETCONF protocol library

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libnetconf is a NETCONF library in C intended for building NETCONF clients and servers. It provides basic functions to connect NETCONF client and server to each other via SSH, to send and receive NETCONF messages and to store and work with the configuration data in a datastore.

With the experiences from libnetconf, we have moved our activities to work on next generation of this library based on libyanglibrary. libnetconf2is mature enough to be used as a replacement of the original libnetconf. Therefore, thelibnetconf is no more developed neither maintained. Note, that while libnetconf2 does not include NETCONF datastore implementation, this particular functionality can be implemented via sysrepo project. Similarly, the NETCONF server/client implementation Netopeer is deprecated and replaced by Netopeer2 which can be also used as a reference tool using libnetconf2functions.

libnetconf was developed by the Tools for Monitoring and Configuration department ofCESNET. It implements the NETCONF protocol introduced by IETF - more information about NETCONF protocol can be found atNETCONF WG.

Documentation

libnetconf's API documentation including a description of its use is availablehere (Python API is available here).

Documentation can be also built from source codes:

Instructions to compile the libnetconf library can be found in INSTALL file.

Informations about differencies to the previous version can be found in [RELEASE_NOTES] (./RELEASE_NOTES) document or compatibility reports.

Features

Interoperability

In November 2012, prior to the IETF 85 meeting, libnetconf was one of the NETCONF protocol implementation participating in NETCONF Interoperability Testing.

Papers and Articles

Project History

libnetconf comes from the Netopeer project. The first version of Netopeer was implemented in 2007 as a bachelor thesis at Masaryk university (available onlyczech). Further work on the project was covered by CESNET, z.s.p.o., Czech National Research and Education Network (NREN) operator and in 2009 released as an open source project at GoogleCode.

Further development led to splitting the original Netopeer applications and creating a separate library implementing NETCONF functionality. The libnetconflibrary was detached as a standalone project in 2012. For some time, theNetopeer server was developed internally at CESNET to control specific CESNET devices.

In 2013, the Netopeer project was restarted. Currently it contains an advanced NETCONF server developed at CESNET with several transAPI modules covering basic configuration of the Linux server. Furthermore, it also contains a command line interface that came from the libnetconf, where it was used as example application. The Netopeer web clientis available separately at GitHub.

In June 2015, the project was moved to GitHub because of GoogleCode shutdown.

In 2016 we have moved our activity to libyangand libnetconf2. The tools became mature in 2017 so the original libnetconf is no more maintained from that time.

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