freenetconfd is NETCONF over ssh frontend for mand. It accepts incomming NETCONF sessions and translates NETCONF requests and RPC to mand's dmconfig API.

• GNU make
• cmake
• gcc >= 4.7
• libev (including the event.h compatibility header, libev-libevent-dev package on Debian/Ubuntu)
• libtalloc
• libssh
• libubox
• libuci
• libubus
• libroxml

• generate makefiles

  cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

• build and install

  make make install

freenetconfd maps NETCONF requests to mand's API, but it is NOT aware of the underlying YANG models. This leads to some restrictions:

• the mandatory node attribute is not enforced
• the read-only node attribute is not enforced
• manual implementated support code is needed for:
  • special namespace prefixes
  • lists
  • leaf lists
  • leafrefs
  • RPC's

mand does not preserve the namespace prefixes of the original YANG model. However, NETCONF expects some nodes to contain those prefixes. Freenetconfd need support code in src/dmconfig.c, dm_get_xml_config to add those prefixes.

freenetconfd needs to know which nodes are leafrefs, list and leaf list to properly translate them. The definition list is in the head of src/dmconfig.c

const char *list_keys[] = {
	"ip",
	"name"
};

const char *leafrefs[] = {
	"lower-layer-if",
	"higher-layer-if"
};

const char *leaf_list_nodes[] = {
	"higher-layer-if", "lower-layer-if",
	"user-name", "search",
	"user-authentication-order", "bootorder"
};

Just like in mand, NETCONF RPC to libdmconfig RPC mappings need manual implementation. For exisiting implementations check the dm_rpc_ family of functions in src/dmconfig.c.