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feat: FreeBSD and OpenBSD drivers, read side
FreeBSDDriver (`freebsd`) and OpenBSDDriver (`openbsd`) on a shared
BsdDriver, for the BSD VMs netOrk provisions and BSD hosts added by hand
(NetOrk/netork#798).

- SSH over exec channels (napalm-device-types' run_on_transport): no PTY,
  stdout and stderr apart, real exit codes; run_command()/open_stream()
  are public. Root through `sudo -S` with the password on stdin, or
  `sudo -n` without one.
- Facts: hostname, release and running kernel (freebsd-version / uname),
  hardware from SMBIOS (kenv) or hw.* sysctls, uptime from kern.boottime.
- Interfaces and addresses (ifconfig -a: ether/lladdr, hex netmasks,
  scoped IPv6), routes (netstat -rn, OpenBSD's abbreviated networks
  written out, host/broadcast/loopback entries left out), ARP (FreeBSD's
  sentences, OpenBSD's table), users and groups, processes (lstart read as
  one five-word field), cron jobs (system crontab and the login user's).
- Parsers are pure functions, tested on output recorded from FreeBSD 15.1
  (hand-installed and cloud image) and OpenBSD 7.9 (NetOrk/netork#793),
  with internal addresses replaced by documentation ranges.
2026-10-08 09:12:53 +02:00

napalm-bsd

NAPALM drivers for FreeBSD (freebsd) and OpenBSD (openbsd) hosts, over SSH, built on napalm-device-types' OSDriver. Written for netOrk, which provisions and manages BSD VMs (NetOrk/netork#792).

Design

  • One shared BsdDriver (napalm_bsd/base.py) holds the SSH layer and every reader whose tools agree between the BSDs. FreeBSDDriver and OpenBSDDriver name only the commands that differ (hostname, release, kernel, hardware, netstat -rnW vs -rn).
  • Every command runs on its own SSH exec channel (run_on_transport from napalm-device-types): no PTY to parse a prompt from, stdout and stderr apart, a real exit status. run_command() / open_stream() are public (CommandChannelMixin).
  • Root comes from sudo -S with the sudo password on stdin (never on a command line), or sudo -n without one, as in napalm-linux. netOrk provisions sudo on BSD VMs for that reason; doas cannot read a password from stdin.
  • Parsing is in napalm_bsd/parse.py, pure functions tested on output recorded from real systems (tests/fixtures/, each directory's COMMANDS.txt lists what produced it).

Supported getters

Getter FreeBSD OpenBSD Source
get_facts ✓ ✓ kern.hostname/hostname, freebsd-version/uname, kenv smbios.*/hw.*, kern.boottime
get_interfaces, get_interfaces_ip ✓ ✓ ifconfig -a
get_route_to ✓ ✓ netstat -rnW / netstat -rn
get_arp_table ✓ ✓ arp -an
get_lldp_neighbors {} {} no LLDP daemon in either base system
get_users, get_processes, get_cron_jobs ✓ ✓ /etc/passwd+/etc/group, ps … lstart, system crontab + crontab -l

Packages, services, updates (#799) and SNMP (#800) follow.

Connection arguments

optional_args: port (22), key_file, sudo_password, allow_agent, look_for_keys (both off by default).

Development

pip install "napalm-device-types @ git+https://git.netork.io/NAPALM/napalm-device-types.git"
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest
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