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Rework EOS BGP neighbors

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#2,316 opened on Apr 20, 2026

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Description

Since we now mandate that only EOS > 4.23.0F is supported, we can switch from TextFSM processing to JSON output for show ip[v6] bgp neighbors vrf all. This should (hopefully) simplify some logic and remove edge cases such as #2280

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Examine the current TextFSM based BGP neighbor parsing in napalm's EOS driver, then refactor to use JSON output from 'show ip bgp neighbors vrf all' and 'show ipv6 bgp neighbors vrf all' for EOS versions >4.23.0F. Address edge cases like #2280 by leveraging structured JSON data.
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python
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backendapi
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Refactor
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PythonTextFSMEOSnapalm
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