Establishing a NETCONF session

The following example shows a client on a Linux PC initiating a connection to an SR OS NETCONF server. The SSH session must be invoked using an SSH subsystem (as recommended in RFC 6242).

ssh user_name@netconf_server_ip -p port_number -s netconf

The following example shows an exchange of hello messages, which include advertisement of capabilities.

From the SR OS server:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hello xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
    <capabilities>
        <capability>urn:ietf:params:netconf:base:1.0</capability>
        <capability>urn:ietf:params:netconf:base:1.1</capability>
        ...
        ...
    </capabilities>
    <session-id>20</session-id>
</hello>
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A NETCONF client can reply with a hello message as shown in either of the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hello xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
    <capabilities>
        <capability>urn:ietf:params:netconf:base:1.0</capability>
    </capabilities>
</hello>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hello xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
  <capabilities>
    <capability>urn:ietf:params:netconf:base:1.1</capability>
  </capabilities>
</hello>
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