Python bindings for the NetCF library

The NetCF library provides relatively high-level API to configuration of Linux network interfaces. Since sometimes it is useful to be able to plug into this interface without NetworkManager or libvirt, we bring you these simple bindings based on python-ctypes.

See the pydoc for details on it's usage.

Quick Examples

from netcf import NetCF

nc = NetCF()

# List all interface hardware addresses.
for ifname in nc:
    print '%s mac=%s' % (ifname, nc[ifname].mac)

# Print definition and state of loopback interface.
print nc['lo'].xml_desc
print nc['lo'].xml_state

# Shutdown and remove an interface.
saved_em1 = nc['em1'].xml_desc
nc['em1'].down()
del nc['em1']

# Configure and bring it up again.
nc.define(saved_em1)
nc['em1'].up()