libnetconf2 is a NETCONF library in C handling NETCONF authentication and all NETCONF RPC communication both server and client-side. Note that NETCONF datastore implementation is not a part of this library. The library supports both NETCONF 1.0 (RFC 4741) as well as NETCONF 1.1 (RFC 6241).

Main Features

Creating SSH (RFC 4742, RFC 6242), using libssh, or TLS (RFC 7589), using OpenSSL, authenticated NETCONF sessions.
Creating NETCONF sessions with a pre-established transport protocol (using this mechanism the communication can be tunneled through sshd(8), for instance).
Creating NETCONF Call Home sessions (RFC 8071).
Creating, sending, receiving, and replying to RPCs (RFC 4741, RFC 6241).
Creating, sending and receiving NETCONF Event Notifications (RFC 5277),

License

(The BSD 3-Clause License)

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