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Diffstat (limited to 'pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go index c5d8a3456..4e7e5f76a 100644 --- a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go +++ b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go @@ -101,8 +101,10 @@ 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. @@ -373,6 +375,12 @@ func IsV6LinkLocalAddress(addr tcpip.Address) bool { return addr[0] == 0xfe && (addr[1]&0xc0) == 0x80 } +// IsV6LoopbackAddress determines if the provided address is an IPv6 loopback +// address. +func IsV6LoopbackAddress(addr tcpip.Address) bool { + return addr == IPv6Loopback +} + // IsV6LinkLocalMulticastAddress determines if the provided address is an IPv6 // link-local multicast address. func IsV6LinkLocalMulticastAddress(addr tcpip.Address) bool { |