Project Summary
Pyroute2 is a pure Python netlink library. It requires only Python stdlib, no 3rd party libraries. Later it can change, but the deps tree will remain as simple, as it is possible.
The library provides several modules:
* Netlink protocol implementations (RTNetlink, TaskStats, etc)
* Simple netlink socket object, that can be used in poll/select
* IPRoute provides API that in some way resembles ip/tc functionality
* IPDB is an async transactional database of network settings (still experimental)
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 13 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 2013
ending with its most recent commit 2 days ago
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