# Copyright 2019 VyOS maintainers and contributors # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library. If not, see . from vyos.ifconfig.interface import Interface class LoopbackIf(Interface): """ The loopback device is a special, virtual network interface that your router uses to communicate with itself. """ default = { 'type': 'loopback', } def __init__(self, ifname, **kargs): super().__init__(ifname, **kargs) def remove(self): """ Loopback interface can not be deleted from operating system. We can only remove all assigned IP addresses. Example: >>> from vyos.ifconfig import Interface >>> i = LoopbackIf('lo').remove() """ # remove all assigned IP addresses from interface for addr in self.get_addr(): if addr in ["127.0.0.1/8", "::1/128"]: # Do not allow deletion of the default loopback addresses as # this will cause weird system behavior like snmp/ssh no longer # operating as expected, see https://phabricator.vyos.net/T2034. continue self.del_addr(addr)