The nispor(Network Inspector) project is designed to providing unified interface for Linux network state querying.

Currently providing:

• Rust crate
• Python binding
• C binding
• Command line tool -- npc

Install

make
sudo PREFIX=/usr make install

Usage

Print all network status

npc

Print network status of certain NIC

npc bond99

Print route entries

npc route

Supported features

• IPv4/IPv6 address
• Bond
• Linux Bridge
• Linux Bridge VLAN filtering
• VLAN
• VxLAN
• Route
• Dummy
• TUN/TAP
• Veth
• VRF(Virtual Routing and Forwarding)
• SR-IOV
• MacVlan
• MacVtap

TODO:

• Error handling instead of unwrap()/panic!/etc
• SR-IOV VF-PF relation is possible
• VLAN QoS
• Route rule
• Traffic control
• Manpage for npc/npd
• pkgconfig file for nispor C library

What should nispor not do

To make nispor only to small good things, this is the list of things could be done by nispor but should not do:

• Ordering the network interface configuration base on child/parent, controller/port relationships.
• Wrapping of multiple kernel options into simple ones.
• User space networking.
• Notification on network change.