Crate bacnet_network 

bacnet-network

NPDU assembly, APDU dispatch and routing components for the Rusty BACnet workspace. layer::NetworkLayer wraps one transport and handles NPDU headers around APDUs. It can address remote devices through a local router, but does not forward between networks. router::BACnetRouter is the separate multi-port router. This hosted crate requires std and Tokio.

Quickstart from development source

This dependency block uses a checkout named rusty-bacnet beside your application directory. It describes development source, not the contents of a published crate version. Adjust the relative paths for another layout. Each crate used by the example is a direct dependency, including the Tokio runtime and macros.

[dependencies]
bacnet-network = { path = "../rusty-bacnet/crates/bacnet-network" }
bacnet-transport = { path = "../rusty-bacnet/crates/bacnet-transport" }
bacnet-npdu = { path = "../rusty-bacnet/crates/bacnet-npdu" }
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["macros", "rt", "time"] }

Send an APDU through two network layers connected by in-process loopback channels. The receiving layer removes the NPDU header and exposes the immediate source MAC. The timeout bounds the wait; no socket or device is opened.

use bacnet_network::layer::NetworkLayer;
use bacnet_transport::loopback::LoopbackTransport;
use bacnet_npdu::NetworkPriority;
use tokio::time::{timeout, Duration};

#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let (left_port, right_port) = LoopbackTransport::pair(vec![1], vec![2]);
    let mut left = NetworkLayer::new(left_port);
    let mut right = NetworkLayer::new(right_port);
    let left_rx = left.start().await?;
    let mut right_rx = right.start().await?;

    let apdu = [0x10, 0x08];
    left.send_apdu(&apdu, &[2], false, NetworkPriority::Normal)
        .await?;
    let received = timeout(Duration::from_secs(2), right_rx.recv())
        .await?
        .ok_or("network receive channel closed")?;
    assert_eq!(received.apdu.as_ref(), &apdu);
    assert_eq!(received.source_mac.as_ref(), &[1]);
    assert!(received.source_network.is_none());
    assert!(!received.link_layer_group);

    left.stop().await?;
    right.stop().await?;
    drop((left_rx, right_rx));
    Ok(())
}

Both receivers returned by start stay owned until cleanup. Each network layer’s stop ends and joins its dispatch task before stopping its transport. Loopback always hands a send to its paired peer, regardless of destination MAC; the example does not establish destination filtering. These assertions prove local APDU delivery without a routed source. They do not demonstrate a remote response, a completed BACnet transaction or forwarding between networks.

API boundaries and features

• layer owns single-transport NPDU processing, APDU delivery and optional network-control reception. start_with_admission exposes receive-queue counters and the documented per-source admission policy.
• router owns forwarding between configured ports and delivery to local endpoints. Its BACnetRouter, RouterPort and RouterOptions types describe that lifecycle separately from NetworkLayer. router.stop().await returns Result<(), RouterStopError>: success means router workers and each transport’s async cleanup have completed. A cancelled stop wait leaves cleanup running; subsequent calls replay the same result, including original transport errors in RouterStopError::failures(). Dropping a router or cancelling startup initiates cleanup on a live runtime, without an immediate resource-reuse guarantee. Awaited startup failure settles rollback for every attempted port; its original startup error takes precedence over logged cleanup failures.
• network_number, router_table, response_route and priority_channel provide the associated state, captured reply routes and queue primitives.

This crate declares no optional features. Select an optional transport through a direct bacnet-transport dependency; Cargo unifies that crate’s features. Neither crate has a no_std or allocation-free hosted configuration. Physical transport access, TLS configuration and hardware qualification are separate from this channel-based quickstart.

API documentation

This README is also the crate’s Rust documentation landing page. The docs.rs profile disables implicit defaults, selects no additional features, and renders only x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Its own network layer and router APIs are present without enabling every optional transport. The underlying transport crate has its own documentation profile. Local rendering checks documentation; it does not establish a docs.rs deployment or physical-network interoperability.

Modules

layer

NetworkLayer for local BACnet packet assembly and dispatch.

network_number

Shared packet contract for the two local nonrouter Network Number controls.

priority_channel

Priority-aware channel for BACnet NPDU dispatch (Clause 6.2.2).

response_route

Original-ingress authority for an application response.

router

BACnet half-router — forwards APDUs between BACnet networks.

router_table

The routing table a BACnetRouter keeps (Clause 6.6.1), which is bacnet-router-core’s Table (#1679).