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Establishing a NETCONF session
Up to 16 concurrent sessions can be established with a NETCONF server. A session times out if it is
idle for 30 minutes.
Each NETCONF session begins with a handshake in which the NETCONF server and the client
specify the NETCONF capabilities they support. The following sections describe the message
exchange on starting a NETCONF session.
Hello messages exchange
After establishing a secure transport connection, both the NETCONF server and client send a
The NETCONF server must include the
receives the
closing the underlying SSH session.
The NETCONF client must not include the
server receives the
by closing the underlying SSH session.
The NETCONF client must include a valid xmlns attribute in the
receives the
session by closing the underlying SSH session.
The NETCONF client must include a base capability. The server receiving the
without a NETCONF base capability aborts the NETCONF session by closing the underlying SSH
session.
The server receiving an
NETCONF session by closing the underlying SSH session.