Librouteros

librouteros is a free and open-source library written in C which abstracts the API provided by RouterOS. It was initially written in 2009 by Florian Forster and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Features and design goals are:

• Ease of use: The library makes heavy use of callback functions which simplifies memory management.
• Strict ISO C99 and POSIX.1-2001 conformance.
• Thread and reentrant-safety.
• Abstraction from underlying network protocol.
• Well documented using manual pages.

Compiling

librouteros uses the autotools and libtool and can therefore be compiled and installed with the usual set of commands:

~ $ tar jxf librouteros-x.y.z.tar.bz2
~ $ cd  librouteros-x.y.z
librouteros-x.y.z $ ./configure
librouteros-x.y.z $ make
librouteros-x.y.z $ make install

Dependencies

librouteros uses the gcrypt library from the GnuPG project to calculate the MD5-hash required for authenticating.

External links

• librouteros' homepage
• libgcrypt in the Free Software Directory