ip-command

A Rust wrapper around the Linux ip(8) command. Powered by Tokio with full async/await support.

Why?

• Rust support for netlink is immature.
• Why should my application communicate directly with the kernel?
• Ubiquitous and available on all platforms, no need to ship a binary.
• Not really expected to be a performance bottleneck, if so, you are probably too chatty with the kernel.
• No dependencies on kernel datastructures, increased portability.

Status

The iproute2 tools have a vast collection of knobs and dials, this project while providing a skeleton does not yet support every feature from the underlying tools. Over time this coverage is expected to improve.

Feature Coverage

• Network devices (link).
• Protocol address of device (addr).
• Address labels (addrlabel).
• Routing table entries (route).
• Routing policy rules (rule).
• ARP or NDISC cache entries (neigh).
• Neighbor cache's operations (ntable).
• Tunnel over IP (tunnel).
• Manage TUN/TAP devices (tuntap).
• Multicast addresses (maddress).
• Multicast routing cache entries (mroute).
• Multicast routing policy rules (mrule).
• Monitor netlink messages (monitor).
• Manage IPSec policies (xfrm).
• Manage network namespaces (netns).
• Tunnel ethernet over IP (l2tp).
• Manage TCP Metrics (tcp_metrics).
• Manage tokenized interface identifiers (token).
• MACsec device configuration (macsec).

Upcoming Features

TBD