Transport Selection

Networka supports pluggable connection transports. Today, Scrapli is the default and stable choice. A Netmiko-based transport via Nornir is planned.

Current status

• Default transport: scrapli (stable)
• Config default override: general.default_transport_type in config/config.yml
• Per-device override: transport_type in a device entry
• CLI override: --transport on commands like nw run, nw ssh, nw info
• nornir-netmiko: not yet supported but coming soon

How precedence works

1. CLI --transport if provided
2. Device transport_type if set
3. Global general.default_transport_type (defaults to scrapli)

Examples

# Use default transport (scrapli)
nw run sw-acc1 "/system/identity/print"

# Force transport per run
nw run sw-acc1 "/system/identity/print" --transport scrapli

# Set default transport in config/config.yml
general:
  default_transport_type: scrapli

Notes

• Transport selection affects how connections and commands are executed.
• Some features may be transport-specific. The Scrapli transport is the reference implementation.
• nornir-netmiko is under active development and will be documented here when available.
• Windows: Scrapli is not officially supported on native Windows. Prefer WSL2/Cygwin for a POSIX environment; native use is best-effort.