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Nettools

Linux Network Management Tools

Overview

The Nettools Project is a reusable implementation of network configuration standards for Linux. At its core, it provides independent libraries that implement the most common RFCs related to network configuration and management. On top of these, it provides services that extend these libraries, as well as other networking resources, to provide an integrated view of all these sources at runtime.

The Nettools Project implements standards that are at the core of network configuration. While many of these have been around for decades, the implementations provided by the Nettools Project focus on a few key aspects:

Projects

Maintenance

All nettools projects are released under the terms of the Apache Software License 2.0, Copyright © 2015-2019 Red Hat, Inc. as well as the terms of the Lesser General Public License 2.1+.