Nipart

https://nispor.github.io/nipart/

Nipart is a network management tool written in Rust providing descriptive API for network management.

Nipart can work in common daemon-client mode, or one-shot daemon-free mode.

The nipartd daemon provides complex network management features, such as DHCP, conditional network up/down.

The npt client by default, send request to daemon for querying and applying network changes. With npt apply <YAML> --no-daemon, it bypass daemon and apply network changes directly to Linux kernel or related daemon(e.g. OVS).

Example YAML connecting to a WIFI network(works both in daemon and no-daemon mode):

---
version: 1
routes:
  config:
  - destination: 0.0.0.0/0
    next-hop-interface: wlan0
    next-hop-address: 192.0.2.1
    metric: 100
interfaces:
- name: wlan0
  type: wifi-phy
  wifi:
    ssid: Test-WIFI
    password: 12345678
  ipv4:
    enabled: true
    dhcp: false
    address:
    - ip: 192.0.2.99
      prefix-length: 24

Features

• Base Interface Management
• IP Address
• No Daemon Mode
• WIFI
• Route
• Conditional Network Up/Down
• Wait Online
• Vlan
• Bond
• Linux Bridge
• OpenvSwitch Bridge
• Wireguard

Installation

Build from source

cargo build --release
sudo systemctl stop nipart || true
sudo cp -fv target/release/nipartd /usr/bin/
sudo cp -fv target/release/npt /usr/bin/
sudo cp -fv packaging/nipart.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo cp -fv packaging/nipart-wait-online.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl enable nipart.service
sudo systemctl enable nipart-wait-online.service
sudo systemctl start nipart.service

Install from Archlinux AUR

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Install from Fedora COPR

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Usage

Show current network state

# daemon mode
sudo npt show
# no-daemon mode
sudo npt show -n

Show saved config of daemon

sudo npt show -s

Show running status of certain interface

sudo npt show wlan0

Scan WIFI networks

sudo npt wifi scan

Connect to WIFI

# This command will ask you to input your wifi password
sudo npt wifi connect <SSID>