xref: /freebsd/sys/net/ethernet.h (revision a8445737e740901f5f2c8d24c12ef7fc8b00134e)
1 /*
2  * Fundamental constants relating to ethernet.
3  *
4  * $Id: ethernet.h,v 1.8 1997/02/22 09:40:58 peter Exp $
5  *
6  */
7 
8 #ifndef _NET_ETHERNET_H_
9 #define _NET_ETHERNET_H_
10 
11 /*
12  * The number of bytes in an ethernet (MAC) address.
13  */
14 #define	ETHER_ADDR_LEN		6
15 
16 /*
17  * The number of bytes in the type field.
18  */
19 #define	ETHER_TYPE_LEN		2
20 
21 /*
22  * The number of bytes in the trailing CRC field.
23  */
24 #define	ETHER_CRC_LEN		4
25 
26 /*
27  * The length of the combined header.
28  */
29 #define	ETHER_HDR_LEN		(ETHER_ADDR_LEN*2+ETHER_TYPE_LEN)
30 
31 /*
32  * The minimum packet length.
33  */
34 #define	ETHER_MIN_LEN		64
35 
36 /*
37  * The maximum packet length.
38  */
39 #define	ETHER_MAX_LEN		1518
40 
41 /*
42  * A macro to validate a length with
43  */
44 #define	ETHER_IS_VALID_LEN(foo)	\
45 	((foo) >= ETHER_MIN_LEN && (foo) <= ETHER_MAX_LEN)
46 
47 /*
48  * Structure of a 10Mb/s Ethernet header.
49  */
50 struct	ether_header {
51 	u_char	ether_dhost[ETHER_ADDR_LEN];
52 	u_char	ether_shost[ETHER_ADDR_LEN];
53 	u_short	ether_type;
54 };
55 
56 /*
57  * Structure of a 48-bit Ethernet address.
58  */
59 struct	ether_addr {
60 	u_char octet[ETHER_ADDR_LEN];
61 };
62 
63 #define	ETHERTYPE_PUP		0x0200	/* PUP protocol */
64 #define	ETHERTYPE_IP		0x0800	/* IP protocol */
65 #define ETHERTYPE_ARP		0x0806	/* Addr. resolution protocol */
66 #define ETHERTYPE_REVARP	0x8035	/* reverse Addr. resolution protocol */
67 #define	ETHERTYPE_VLAN		0x8100 /* IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging */
68 #define	ETHERTYPE_LOOPBACK	0x9000	/* used to test interfaces */
69 /* XXX - add more useful types here */
70 
71 /*
72  * The ETHERTYPE_NTRAILER packet types starting at ETHERTYPE_TRAIL have
73  * (type-ETHERTYPE_TRAIL)*512 bytes of data followed
74  * by an ETHER type (as given above) and then the (variable-length) header.
75  */
76 #define	ETHERTYPE_TRAIL		0x1000		/* Trailer packet */
77 #define	ETHERTYPE_NTRAILER	16
78 
79 #define	ETHERMTU	(ETHER_MAX_LEN-ETHER_HDR_LEN-ETHER_CRC_LEN)
80 #define	ETHERMIN	(ETHER_MIN_LEN-ETHER_HDR_LEN-ETHER_CRC_LEN)
81 
82 #ifndef KERNEL
83 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
84 
85 /*
86  * Ethernet address conversion/parsing routines.
87  */
88 __BEGIN_DECLS
89 struct	ether_addr *ether_aton __P((char *));
90 int	ether_hostton __P((char *, struct ether_addr *));
91 int	ether_line __P((char *, struct ether_addr *, char *));
92 char 	*ether_ntoa __P((struct ether_addr *));
93 int	ether_ntohost __P((char *, struct ether_addr *));
94 __END_DECLS
95 #endif /* !KERNEL */
96 
97 #endif /* !_NET_ETHERNET_H_ */
98