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-rw-r--r--pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go27
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
index 4f367fe4c..09cb153b1 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ const (
hopLimit = 7
v6SrcAddr = 8
v6DstAddr = v6SrcAddr + IPv6AddressSize
+
+ // IPv6FixedHeaderSize is the size of the fixed header.
+ IPv6FixedHeaderSize = v6DstAddr + IPv6AddressSize
)
// IPv6Fields contains the fields of an IPv6 packet. It is used to describe the
@@ -69,11 +72,15 @@ type IPv6 []byte
const (
// IPv6MinimumSize is the minimum size of a valid IPv6 packet.
- IPv6MinimumSize = 40
+ IPv6MinimumSize = IPv6FixedHeaderSize
// IPv6AddressSize is the size, in bytes, of an IPv6 address.
IPv6AddressSize = 16
+ // IPv6MaximumPayloadSize is the maximum size of a valid IPv6 payload per
+ // RFC 8200 Section 4.5.
+ IPv6MaximumPayloadSize = 65535
+
// IPv6ProtocolNumber is IPv6's network protocol number.
IPv6ProtocolNumber tcpip.NetworkProtocolNumber = 0x86dd
@@ -94,10 +101,15 @@ const (
// The address is ff02::2.
IPv6AllRoutersMulticastAddress tcpip.Address = "\xff\x02\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02"
- // IPv6MinimumMTU is the minimum MTU required by IPv6, per RFC 2460,
- // section 5.
+ // IPv6MinimumMTU is the minimum MTU required by IPv6, per RFC 8200,
+ // section 5:
+ // IPv6 requires that every link in the Internet have an MTU of 1280 octets
+ // or greater. This is known as the IPv6 minimum link MTU.
IPv6MinimumMTU = 1280
+ // IPv6Loopback is the IPv6 Loopback address.
+ IPv6Loopback tcpip.Address = "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01"
+
// IPv6Any is the non-routable IPv6 "any" meta address. It is also
// known as the unspecified address.
IPv6Any tcpip.Address = "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
@@ -299,14 +311,21 @@ func IsV6UnicastAddress(addr tcpip.Address) bool {
return addr[0] != 0xff
}
+const solicitedNodeMulticastPrefix = "\xff\x02\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\xff"
+
// 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.
func SolicitedNodeAddr(addr tcpip.Address) tcpip.Address {
- const solicitedNodeMulticastPrefix = "\xff\x02\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\xff"
return solicitedNodeMulticastPrefix + addr[len(addr)-3:]
}
+// IsSolicitedNodeAddr determines whether the address is a solicited-node
+// multicast address.
+func IsSolicitedNodeAddr(addr tcpip.Address) bool {
+ return solicitedNodeMulticastPrefix == addr[:len(addr)-3]
+}
+
// EthernetAdddressToModifiedEUI64IntoBuf populates buf with a modified EUI-64
// from a 48-bit Ethernet/MAC address, as per RFC 4291 section 2.5.1.
//