aiortnetlink 0.2.1

Netlink client for asyncio

aiortnetlink

Pure-python asyncio rtnetlink client.

Getting started

Install from PyPI:

pip install aiortnetlink

Or, adding to your uv project:

uv add aiortnetlink

Example:

from aiortnetlink import NetlinkClient

async with NetlinkClient() as nl:
    async for link in nl.get_links():
        print(f"{link.index}: {link.name}")

The module ships with a CLI, for example if running from the repository root:

uv run aiortnetlink addr show

Supported features

Links

• get_links: List all links.
• get_link: Lookup link by index or name.

Addresses

• get_links: List all addresses.
• add_addr: Add IP address to link.
• del_addr: Remove IP address from link.

Routes

• get_routes: List all routes.

Rules

• get_rules: List all rules.

Notifications

• recv_notification: Receive netlink notification. Notification subscription is done by passing the revelant rtnetlink groups to the netlink client.

Development

This project uses uv for project management and poe the poet to run development tasks. Linting and code formatting is done using ruff, type checking using mypy and tests using pytest.

For example to run all checks locally:

uvx --from poethepoet poe lint

To format code using ruff:

uvx --from poethepoet poe fmt