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authorGhanan Gowripalan <ghanan@google.com>2019-09-17 14:45:41 -0700
committergVisor bot <gvisor-bot@google.com>2019-09-17 14:47:09 -0700
commit60fe8719e172f76aa5cfd8cd80a35c3e648701a3 (patch)
tree90383286c0805e9f4c75734121bfe324591fd8a2 /pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
parent062190d983b133c26dd0abcc398ec9f008b167b4 (diff)
Automated rollback of changelist 268047073
PiperOrigin-RevId: 269658971
Diffstat (limited to 'pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go')
-rw-r--r--pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go25
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
index 093850e25..9d3abc0e4 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
@@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ const (
// IPv6Version is the version of the ipv6 protocol.
IPv6Version = 6
+ // IPv6AllNodesMulticastAddress is a link-local multicast group that
+ // all IPv6 nodes MUST join, as per RFC 4291, section 2.8. Packets
+ // destined to this address will reach all nodes on a link.
+ //
+ // The address is ff02::1.
+ IPv6AllNodesMulticastAddress tcpip.Address = "\xff\x02\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01"
+
// IPv6MinimumMTU is the minimum MTU required by IPv6, per RFC 2460,
// section 5.
IPv6MinimumMTU = 1280
@@ -221,6 +228,24 @@ func IsV6MulticastAddress(addr tcpip.Address) bool {
return addr[0] == 0xff
}
+// IsV6UnicastAddress determines if the provided address is a valid IPv6
+// unicast (and specified) address. That is, IsV6UnicastAddress returns
+// true if addr contains IPv6AddressSize bytes, is not the unspecified
+// address and is not a multicast address.
+func IsV6UnicastAddress(addr tcpip.Address) bool {
+ if len(addr) != IPv6AddressSize {
+ return false
+ }
+
+ // Must not be unspecified
+ if addr == IPv6Any {
+ return false
+ }
+
+ // Return if not a multicast.
+ return addr[0] != 0xff
+}
+
// SolicitedNodeAddr computes the solicited-node multicast address. This is
// used for NDP. Described in RFC 4291. The argument must be a full-length IPv6
// address.