https://github.com/fedora-python/python-ethtool

Deprecated Python bindings for the ethtool kernel interface
https://github.com/fedora-python/python-ethtool

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Deprecated Python bindings for the ethtool kernel interface

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fedora-python/python-ethtool
• Owner: fedora-python
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2017-03-21T13:34:00.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-03T11:04:34.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-31T10:11:09.732Z (10 months ago)
• Language: C
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• Size: 281 KB
• Stars: 16
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 13
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.rst
  • Changelog: CHANGES.rst
  • License: COPYING

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Python ethtool module

=====================

*Python bindings for the ethtool kernel interface*

The Python ``ethtool`` module allows querying and partially controlling network

interfaces, driver, and hardware settings.

.. warning::

    This is the new upstream for python-ethtool maintained by Fedora's

    Python SIG. We ported it to Python 3 and only maintain it for the current

    tools to keep working. **No new development is happening. This is a

    deprecated package.** If you are considering to start using this, please

    don't. We recommend `netifaces `_ instead. Another alternative is `ethtool parsers `_ from `insights-core `_.

Installation

------------

The easiest way to install ``ethtool`` is to use your distribution packages

repositories. For example:

**Fedora**: ``sudo dnf install python3-ethtool`` or ``sudo dnf install python2-ethtool``

**Ubuntu**: ``sudo apt install python-ethtool``

In order to install ``ethtool`` from source or PyPI install its dependencies first:

**Fedora**: ``sudo dnf install libnl3-devel gcc redhat-rpm-config python3-devel``

**Ubuntu**: ``sudo apt install python3 python3-setuptools libpython3.6-dev libnl-route-3-dev``

And then install ``ethtool``:

**from PyPI**: ``pip3 install ethtool``

**from source**: ``python3 setup.py install``

Usage

-----

``ethtool`` may be used as a Python library::

    >>> import ethtool

    >>> ethtool.get_active_devices()

    ['lo', 'enp0s31f6', 'wlp4s0', 'virbr0', 'docker0', 'virbr1', 'eth0', 'tun0']

    >>> ethtool.get_ipaddr('lo')

    '127.0.0.1'

The ``ethtool`` package also provides the ``pethtool`` and ``pifconfig`` utilities.  More example usage may be gathered from their sources,

`pethtool.py `_

and

`pifconfig.py `_.

``pethtool`` mimics behavior of the ``ethtool`` utility, but does not

support all options.

e.g., to get driver information on the ``eth0`` interface::

    $ pethtool -i eth0

    driver: cdc_ether

    bus-info: usb-0000:00:14.0-4.1.3

Analogically, ``pifconfig`` mimics ``ifconfig`` in usage.  It may be

used to view information on an interface::

    $ pifconfig lo

    lo        

          inet addr:127.0.0.1   Mask:255.0.0.0

	      inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope: host

	      UP LOOPBACK RUNNING

Further usage information may be found in the respective manpages for

`pethtool `_

and

`pifconfig `_.

Tests

-----

Tests may be run by ``tox``.

Authors

-------

* Andy Grover

* Antoni S. Puimedon

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

* Bohuslav Kabrda

* Braňo Náter

* Dave Malcolm

* David S. Miller

* David Sommerseth

* Harald Hoyer

* Charalampos Stratakis

* Jeff Garzik

* Lumir Balhar

* Miro Hrončok

* Miroslav Suchý

* Ruben Kerkhof

* Sanqui

* Yaakov Selkowitz

Current maintainers

-------------------

* Lumír Balhar 

* Miro Hrončok 

* Charalampos Stratakis 

Contributing

------------

Feel free to help us with improving test coverage, porting to Python 3

or anything else.

Issues and PRs `on GitHub `_

are welcome.

License

-------

The Python ``ethtool`` project is free software distributed under the terms of

the GNU General Public License v2.0, see

`COPYING `_.