GNS3 Python API

[grossmj]

It would be great to have a python module to access GNS3 topology control, like:

• shut down / bring up interfaces
• reload / stop / start devices
• build connections between device interfaces
• Control link quality, even during topology running (emulate link quality degradation) mininet-like:

Emulated Links. The data rate of each link is enforced by Linux Traffic Control (tc), which has a number of packet schedulers to shape traffic to a configured rate... ex: self.addLink(host, switch, bw=10, delay='5ms', loss=10, max_queue_size=1000)

• add devices to the topology

[julien-duponchelle]

It's partially done with the REST Api. But the management of multiple servers make it hard to use for users.

[julien-duponchelle]

This issue was moved to GNS3/gns3-server#353