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* Copyright (c) 2014, Regents of the University of California,
* Arizona Board of Regents,
* Colorado State University,
* University Pierre & Marie Curie, Sorbonne University,
* Washington University in St. Louis,
* Beijing Institute of Technology,
* The University of Memphis
*
* This file is part of ndn-cxx library (NDN C++ library with eXperimental eXtensions).
*
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*/
#ifndef NDN_UTIL_ETHERNET_HPP
#define NDN_UTIL_ETHERNET_HPP
#include <array>
#include <cstdint>
#include <string>
namespace ndn {
namespace util {
namespace ethernet {
const uint16_t ETHERTYPE_NDN = 0x8624;
const size_t ADDR_LEN = 6; ///< Octets in one Ethernet address
const size_t TYPE_LEN = 2; ///< Octets in Ethertype field
const size_t HDR_LEN = 14; ///< Total octets in Ethernet header (without 802.1Q tag)
const size_t TAG_LEN = 4; ///< Octets in 802.1Q tag (TPID + priority + VLAN)
const size_t MIN_DATA_LEN = 46; ///< Min octets in Ethernet payload (assuming no 802.1Q tag)
const size_t MAX_DATA_LEN = 1500; ///< Max octets in Ethernet payload
const size_t CRC_LEN = 4; ///< Octets in Ethernet frame check sequence
/** \brief represents an Ethernet hardware address
*/
class Address : public std::array<uint8_t, ADDR_LEN>
{
public:
/// Constructs a null Ethernet address (00:00:00:00:00:00)
Address();
/// Constructs a new Ethernet address with the given octets
Address(uint8_t a1, uint8_t a2, uint8_t a3,
uint8_t a4, uint8_t a5, uint8_t a6);
/// Constructs a new Ethernet address with the given octets
explicit
Address(const uint8_t octets[ADDR_LEN]);
/// True if this is a broadcast address (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff)
bool
isBroadcast() const;
/// True if this is a multicast address
bool
isMulticast() const;
/// True if this is a null address (00:00:00:00:00:00)
bool
isNull() const;
/**
* \brief Converts the address to a human-readable string
*
* \param sep A character used to visually separate the octets,
* usually ':' (the default value) or '-'
*/
std::string
toString(char sep = ':') const;
/**
* \brief Creates an Address from a string containing an Ethernet address
* in hexadecimal notation, with colons or hyphens as separators
*
* \param str The string to be parsed
* \return Always an instance of Address, which will be null
* if the parsing fails
*/
static Address
fromString(const std::string& str);
};
/// Returns the Ethernet broadcast address (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff)
Address
getBroadcastAddress();
/// Returns the default Ethernet multicast address for NDN
Address
getDefaultMulticastAddress();
std::ostream&
operator<<(std::ostream& o, const Address& a);
} // namespace ethernet
} // namespace util
} // namespace ndn
#endif // NDN_UTIL_ETHERNET_HPP