README.md

@@ -128,6 +128,14 @@ A mechanism it could not read completely is `None` ("did not look"), a host with
 `[]`. The command is about 4 kB, so a driver sends it on an exec channel
 (`_run_virtual_ips_command(command, privileged=)`), not typed into a shell.
 
+A firewall's CARP addresses are a third mechanism, `carp`, which a firewall driver reads
+from its own API and reports under the reading's `carp` key (`vip_manager` and
+`keepalived` then None). `carp_virtual_ip(...)` turns one address bound to a VHID into the
+entry -- the same for OPNsense and pfSense. Unlike the other two, a CARP entry says who
+holds the address (`holds`): every member carries the address in its configuration, and a
+firewall's interface list need not show it, but CARP's state names the MASTER. A state it
+does not know leaves `holds` None, and the caller falls back on the interfaces.
+
 `SystemIdentityMixin` (`get_system_identity`) reads a host's SMBIOS identity -- system UUID,
 product serial and board serial from `/sys/class/dmi/id` -- which is what ties a server to
 its BMC (`ManagementControllerDriver.get_hardware_inventory` reports the same values from

napalm_device_types/__init__.py

@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ from napalm_device_types.system_identity import (
 from napalm_device_types.virtual_ips import (
     VIRTUAL_IPS_COMMAND,
     VirtualIpsMixin,
+    carp_virtual_ip,
     parse_virtual_ips,
 )
 from napalm_device_types.residential_gateway import ResidentialGatewayDriver
@@ -221,6 +222,7 @@ __all__ = [
     "SshHardeningResult",
     "plan_ssh_hardening",
     "parse_virtual_ips",
+    "carp_virtual_ip",
     "add_lag_interfaces",
     "driver_supports_ping",
     "normalize_cidr",

napalm_device_types/models.py

@@ -404,29 +404,42 @@ class VirtualIpDict(TypedDict):
     """An address the host's HA configuration lets float between machines.
 
     Declared, not observed: whether the host holds the address right now is in
-    its interface addresses, not here. Only these fields leave the host -- never
-    a password, an etcd endpoint or a notify script.
+    its interface addresses, not here -- unless the mechanism says so itself.
+    CARP does (``holds``): a firewall's interface list need not show the
+    address at all, but CARP's state names the MASTER. Only these fields leave
+    the host -- never a password, an etcd endpoint or a notify script.
     """
 
-    mechanism: str  # "vip-manager" | "keepalived"
-    instance: str  # the vrrp_instance name, or the vip-manager unit without ".service"
+    mechanism: str  # "vip-manager" | "keepalived" | "carp"
+    #: the vrrp_instance name, the vip-manager unit without ".service", or the
+    #: CARP address's interface description
+    instance: str
     address: str  # normalised: "10.7.224.10", "fd00::10"
     prefix_length: Optional[int]  # None where the configuration gives none
     interface: Optional[str]
-    group_key: Optional[str]  # vip-manager's trigger-key, or "vrid:<n>" for keepalived
-    running: Optional[bool]  # the unit is active
+    #: vip-manager's trigger-key, "vrid:<n>" for keepalived, "vhid:<n>" for CARP
+    group_key: Optional[str]
+    running: Optional[bool]  # the unit is active; for CARP: in MASTER or BACKUP
+    #: The host holds the address now, by the mechanism's own state (CARP's
+    #: MASTER). Absent or None: the interface addresses tell.
+    holds: NotRequired[Optional[bool]]
 
 
 class VirtualIpsDict(TypedDict):
-    """What ``VirtualIpsMixin.get_virtual_ips`` read, per mechanism.
+    """What a driver's ``get_virtual_ips`` read, per mechanism.
 
     A list is what was looked at -- ``[]`` a host without that mechanism. None is
     "did not look": a configuration it could not read, an include it could not
-    follow, a host without systemd. A consumer keeps what it knew for a None.
+    follow, a host without systemd, a mechanism the driver does not read (a
+    firewall's reading has ``vip_manager`` and ``keepalived`` None). A consumer
+    keeps what it knew for a None, and for a missing ``carp``.
     """
 
     vip_manager: Optional[List[VirtualIpDict]]
     keepalived: Optional[List[VirtualIpDict]]
+    #: A firewall's CARP addresses (not read by ``VirtualIpsMixin``, which reads Linux
+    #: hosts): every address bound to a VHID, the CARP address and IP aliases on it.
+    carp: NotRequired[Optional[List[VirtualIpDict]]]
 
 
 class PortForwardDict(TypedDict):

napalm_device_types/virtual_ips.py

@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ caller keeps what it knew. ``[]`` is a host that has none.
 script goes to the host as one ``sh -c`` argument; when the privileged call
 brings no report back, it runs again without privilege and reads what it can.
 
+**CARP.** A firewall's CARP addresses come from its own API, not from this
+command, so :func:`carp_virtual_ip` only shapes one entry: what is the same for
+every CARP firewall is the meaning of the state. CARP's MASTER holds the address
+(``holds``), which the interface list of a firewall need not show.
+
 **An exec channel, not a terminal.** With its awk program the command is about
 4 kB, past the line an interactive shell reliably takes. A driver sends it the
 way it runs any command that needs no PTY -- napalm-linux's ``run_command``.
@@ -332,6 +337,53 @@ _READERS: Dict[str, Tuple[str, Callable[[str, List[_Record]], List[VirtualIpDict
 }
 
 
+#: CARP's state of a VHID on one member -> (running, holds).
+_CARP_STATES: Dict[str, Tuple[bool, bool]] = {
+    "MASTER": (True, True),
+    "BACKUP": (True, False),
+    "INIT": (False, False),
+    "DISABLED": (False, False),
+}
+
+
+def carp_virtual_ip(
+    *,
+    address: str,
+    prefix_length: Optional[int],
+    vhid: object,
+    state: Optional[str],
+    instance: str,
+    interface: Optional[str],
+) -> Optional[VirtualIpDict]:
+    """One address bound to a CARP VHID, as a virtual IP; None for what is no address.
+
+    Who holds it comes from CARP's *state* on this member, not from its
+    interfaces: MASTER holds it, BACKUP stands by, INIT and DISABLED neither run
+    nor hold. A state this does not know says nothing (``running`` and ``holds``
+    None), and the caller falls back on the interfaces. *address* may carry its
+    prefix (``"10.0.0.1/24"``), which then wins over *prefix_length*.
+    """
+    parsed = _address(address.strip()) if address else None
+    if parsed is None:
+        return None
+    normalised, written = parsed
+    prefix = written if written is not None else prefix_length
+    if prefix is not None and not 0 <= prefix <= ipaddress.ip_address(normalised).max_prefixlen:
+        prefix = None
+    vhid_text = str(vhid).strip() if vhid is not None else ""
+    running, holds = _CARP_STATES.get((state or "").strip().upper(), (None, None))
+    return {
+        "mechanism": "carp",
+        "instance": instance or f"vhid {vhid_text}",
+        "address": normalised,
+        "prefix_length": prefix,
+        "interface": interface,
+        "group_key": f"vhid:{vhid_text}" if vhid_text.isdigit() else None,
+        "running": running,
+        "holds": holds,
+    }
+
+
 def _order(entry: VirtualIpDict) -> Tuple[int, int, str]:
     address = ipaddress.ip_address(entry["address"])
     return address.version, int(address), entry["instance"]

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "napalm-device-types"
-version = "4.9.0"
+version = "4.10.0"
 description = "Abstract device-type base classes for NAPALM drivers"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"

tests/test_carp_virtual_ips.py

@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+"""carp_virtual_ip: one CARP address as a virtual IP, with its holder in the reading.
+
+CARP differs from vip-manager and keepalived in what the caller can see. The
+address is configured on every member, and the interface list of a firewall need
+not show it at all -- so the interfaces cannot say who holds it. CARP's own state
+can: the member in MASTER holds it, a BACKUP stands by. Turning that state into a
+virtual IP is the same for every CARP firewall (OPNsense, pfSense), so it lives
+here; a driver supplies the fields from its API (netOrk #1121).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pytest
+
+from napalm_device_types.virtual_ips import carp_virtual_ip
+
+
+def _entry(**overrides):
+    fields = {
+        "address": "172.22.8.1",
+        "prefix_length": 24,
+        "vhid": "108",
+        "state": "MASTER",
+        "instance": "MGMT",
+        "interface": "vtnet0",
+    }
+    fields.update(overrides)
+    return carp_virtual_ip(**fields)
+
+
+def test_a_master_holds_the_address():
+    assert _entry() == {
+        "mechanism": "carp",
+        "instance": "MGMT",
+        "address": "172.22.8.1",
+        "prefix_length": 24,
+        "interface": "vtnet0",
+        "group_key": "vhid:108",
+        "running": True,
+        "holds": True,
+    }
+
+
+def test_a_backup_stands_by():
+    entry = _entry(state="BACKUP")
+    assert entry is not None
+    assert (entry["running"], entry["holds"]) == (True, False)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("state", ["INIT", "DISABLED"])
+def test_a_member_whose_carp_is_not_up_neither_runs_nor_holds(state):
+    entry = _entry(state=state)
+    assert entry is not None
+    assert (entry["running"], entry["holds"]) == (False, False)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("state", [None, "", "SOMETHING-NEW"])
+def test_an_unknown_state_says_nothing_about_the_holder(state):
+    """None leaves the holder to the interfaces, as for the other mechanisms."""
+    entry = _entry(state=state)
+    assert entry is not None
+    assert (entry["running"], entry["holds"]) == (None, None)
+
+
+def test_the_state_is_read_case_blind():
+    entry = _entry(state=" master ")
+    assert entry is not None
+    assert entry["holds"] is True
+
+
+def test_the_address_is_normalised():
+    entry = _entry(address="FD00::0001", prefix_length=64)
+    assert entry is not None
+    assert entry["address"] == "fd00::1"
+
+
+def test_an_address_written_with_its_prefix_takes_that_prefix():
+    entry = _entry(address="10.42.100.1/24", prefix_length=None)
+    assert entry is not None
+    assert (entry["address"], entry["prefix_length"]) == ("10.42.100.1", 24)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("address", ["", "not-an-address", "10.0.0.300"])
+def test_what_is_no_address_is_no_virtual_ip(address):
+    assert _entry(address=address) is None
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("prefix", [33, -1])
+def test_an_impossible_prefix_is_dropped(prefix):
+    entry = _entry(prefix_length=prefix)
+    assert entry is not None
+    assert entry["prefix_length"] is None
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("vhid", [None, "", "abc"])
+def test_without_a_numeric_vhid_there_is_no_group(vhid):
+    entry = _entry(vhid=vhid)
+    assert entry is not None
+    assert entry["group_key"] is None
+
+
+def test_a_vhid_given_as_a_number_groups_the_same_way():
+    entry = _entry(vhid=108)
+    assert entry is not None
+    assert entry["group_key"] == "vhid:108"
+
+
+def test_an_empty_instance_falls_back_to_the_vhid():
+    entry = _entry(instance="")
+    assert entry is not None
+    assert entry["instance"] == "vhid 108"