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Mixes in napalm-device-types' ListeningSocketsMixin (2.5.0): without ss
the shared command reads busybox netstat, and each process's cgroup names
its procd service. The driver only carries the command across.

Over an SSH exec channel of its own, not the interactive shell: busybox
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cut line left the shell waiting for a closing quote. OpenWrt logs in as
root; a login other than root cannot become root, so its reading says it
is not attributed.

Checked against a real OpenWrt 25.12.2 access point. For netOrk#673.
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napalm-openwrt

NAPALM community driver for OpenWrt routers and access-points.

Communicates over SSH using Netmiko (linux device type).
Requires OpenWrt 19.07 or newer.

Tested devices

Model OpenWrt version Tested
TP-Link TL-WR1043N/ND v5 23.05.3 ✅

Contributions for additional devices and firmware versions are welcome.

Requirements

Dependency Minimum version
Python 3.8
NAPALM 4.0
Netmiko 4.0

Installation

From source:

git clone https://github.com/napalm-automation-community/napalm-openwrt
cd napalm-openwrt
pip install -e .

Quick start

from napalm import get_network_driver

driver = get_network_driver("openwrt")
device = driver("192.168.1.1", "root", "")

device.open()

facts = device.get_facts()
print(facts)

interfaces = device.get_interfaces()
print(interfaces)

device.close()

Supported NAPALM getters

Getter Supported Notes
get_facts ✅ Uses /etc/openwrt_release, /tmp/sysinfo/model, /proc/uptime
get_interfaces ✅ Uses ip link show
get_interfaces_ip ✅ Uses ip addr show
get_interfaces_counters ✅ Uses /proc/net/dev
get_arp_table ✅ Uses ip neigh show
get_mac_address_table ✅ Uses bridge fdb show
get_config ✅ Uses uci export
get_environment ✅ CPU from /proc/stat, memory from /proc/meminfo
get_lldp_neighbors ✅ Requires lldpd package installed on device
get_lldp_neighbors_detail ✅ Requires lldpd package installed on device
get_listening_sockets ✅ busybox netstat -lntup, procd service from the process's cgroup (napalm-device-types ListeningSocketsMixin); over an SSH exec channel

Configuration management

Configuration is managed via UCI (Unified Configuration Interface).

Merge candidate

device.load_merge_candidate(config="""
uci set system.@system[0].hostname='my-router'
uci set network.lan.ipaddr='10.0.0.1'
""")

print(device.compare_config())
device.commit_config()

Replace candidate

with open("full-config.uci") as f:
    device.load_replace_candidate(config=f.read())

print(device.compare_config())
device.commit_config()

Rollback

# Reverts to the config state before the last commit_config call
device.rollback()

Development

# Create and activate a virtual environment
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

# Install with dev dependencies
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run tests
pytest

# Lint
ruff check napalm_openwrt/