[ETH]: ether address compare
[deliverable/linux.git] / include / linux / etherdevice.h
1 /*
2 * INET An implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite for the LINUX
3 * operating system. NET is implemented using the BSD Socket
4 * interface as the means of communication with the user level.
5 *
6 * Definitions for the Ethernet handlers.
7 *
8 * Version: @(#)eth.h 1.0.4 05/13/93
9 *
10 * Authors: Ross Biro
11 * Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG>
12 *
13 * Relocated to include/linux where it belongs by Alan Cox
14 * <gw4pts@gw4pts.ampr.org>
15 *
16 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
17 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
18 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
19 * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
20 *
21 * WARNING: This move may well be temporary. This file will get merged with others RSN.
22 *
23 */
24 #ifndef _LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_H
25 #define _LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_H
26
27 #include <linux/if_ether.h>
28 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
29 #include <linux/random.h>
30
31 #ifdef __KERNEL__
32 extern int eth_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
33 unsigned short type, void *daddr,
34 void *saddr, unsigned len);
35 extern int eth_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb);
36 extern __be16 eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
37 extern void eth_header_cache_update(struct hh_cache *hh, struct net_device *dev,
38 unsigned char * haddr);
39 extern int eth_header_cache(struct neighbour *neigh,
40 struct hh_cache *hh);
41
42 extern struct net_device *alloc_etherdev(int sizeof_priv);
43 static inline void eth_copy_and_sum (struct sk_buff *dest,
44 const unsigned char *src,
45 int len, int base)
46 {
47 memcpy (dest->data, src, len);
48 }
49
50 /**
51 * is_zero_ether_addr - Determine if give Ethernet address is all
52 * zeros.
53 */
54 static inline int is_zero_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
55 {
56 return !(addr[0] | addr[1] | addr[2] | addr[3] | addr[4] | addr[5]);
57 }
58
59 /**
60 * is_multicast_ether_addr - Determine if the given Ethernet address is a
61 * multicast address.
62 *
63 * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
64 *
65 * Return true if the address is a multicast address.
66 */
67 static inline int is_multicast_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
68 {
69 return ((addr[0] != 0xff) && (0x01 & addr[0]));
70 }
71
72 static inline int is_broadcast_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
73 {
74 return ((addr[0] == 0xff) && (addr[1] == 0xff) && (addr[2] == 0xff) &&
75 (addr[3] == 0xff) && (addr[4] == 0xff) && (addr[5] == 0xff));
76 }
77
78 /**
79 * is_valid_ether_addr - Determine if the given Ethernet address is valid
80 * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
81 *
82 * Check that the Ethernet address (MAC) is not 00:00:00:00:00:00, is not
83 * a multicast address, and is not FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.
84 *
85 * Return true if the address is valid.
86 */
87 static inline int is_valid_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
88 {
89 /* FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is a multicast address so we don't need to
90 * explicitly check for it here. */
91 return !is_multicast_ether_addr(addr) && !is_zero_ether_addr(addr);
92 }
93
94 /**
95 * random_ether_addr - Generate software assigned random Ethernet address
96 * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
97 *
98 * Generate a random Ethernet address (MAC) that is not multicast
99 * and has the local assigned bit set.
100 */
101 static inline void random_ether_addr(u8 *addr)
102 {
103 get_random_bytes (addr, ETH_ALEN);
104 addr [0] &= 0xfe; /* clear multicast bit */
105 addr [0] |= 0x02; /* set local assignment bit (IEEE802) */
106 }
107
108 /**
109 * compare_ether_addr - Compare two Ethernet addresses
110 * @addr1: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
111 * @addr2 Pointer other six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
112 *
113 * Compare two ethernet addresses, returns 0 if equal
114 */
115 static inline unsigned compare_ether_addr(const u8 *_a, const u8 *_b)
116 {
117 const u16 *a = (const u16 *) _a;
118 const u16 *b = (const u16 *) _b;
119
120 BUILD_BUG_ON(ETH_ALEN != 6);
121 return ((a[0] ^ b[0]) | (a[1] ^ b[1]) | (a[2] ^ b[2])) != 0;
122 }
123 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
124
125 #endif /* _LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_H */
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