bengal / nispor

Unified interface for Linux network state querying

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

Currently providing:

• Rust crate
• Python binding
• Varlink interface -- npd
• 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

Varlink service

systemctl start nispor.socket

Varlink client

# Please install `libvarlink-util` pacakge beforehand
varlink call unix:/run/nispor/nispor.so/info.nispor.Get

Supported features

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

TODO:

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