ETHER(2) ETHER(2)
NAME
ether - Ethernet address manipulation
SYNOPSIS
include "ether.m";
ether := load Ether Ether->PATH;
Eaddrlen: con 6;
init: fn();
parse: fn(s: string): array of byte;
text: fn(a: array of byte): string;
addressof: fn(dev: string): array of byte;
eqaddr: fn(a, b: array of byte): int;
DESCRIPTION
Ether provides a small set of functions that manipulate Eth-
ernet MAC addresses, for the use of the few applications
such as bootpd(8) that must work with them.
Init must be called before using any other function in the
module.
Parse takes a textual representation of a MAC address in s
and returns its internal representation as an array of bytes
of length Eaddrlen, the form used in packets read and writ-
ten via ether(3). S is a string of twelve hexadecimal dig-
its, corresponding to the six bytes of a MAC address. Each
pair of digits can optionally be separated by a colon. If s
is invalid, parse returns nil.
Text takes an array of bytes of length Eaddrlen and returns
its textual representation (a string of twelve hexadecimal
digits). It returns `<invalid>' if the array is less than
Eaddrlen, but it ignores any bytes beyond that.
Addressof returns the MAC address of the given Ether device
dev (eg, `/net/ether0'), which it reads from dev/addr. It
returns nil and sets the error string if that file does not
exist or is invalid.
Eqaddr returns true iff a and b are the same address.
FILES
net/etherN/addr hardware address of Ether N
SOURCE
/appl/lib/ether.b
SEE ALSO
Page 1 Plan 9 (printed 12/22/24)
ETHER(2) ETHER(2)
ip(2), ether(3)
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