summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffhomepage
path: root/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go')
-rw-r--r--pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go22
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
index 70e6ce095..76e88e9b3 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
@@ -115,6 +115,19 @@ const (
// for the secret key used to generate an opaque interface identifier as
// outlined by RFC 7217.
OpaqueIIDSecretKeyMinBytes = 16
+
+ // ipv6MulticastAddressScopeByteIdx is the byte where the scope (scop) field
+ // is located within a multicast IPv6 address, as per RFC 4291 section 2.7.
+ ipv6MulticastAddressScopeByteIdx = 1
+
+ // ipv6MulticastAddressScopeMask is the mask for the scope (scop) field,
+ // within the byte holding the field, as per RFC 4291 section 2.7.
+ ipv6MulticastAddressScopeMask = 0xF
+
+ // ipv6LinkLocalMulticastScope is the value of the scope (scop) field within
+ // a multicast IPv6 address that indicates the address has link-local scope,
+ // as per RFC 4291 section 2.7.
+ ipv6LinkLocalMulticastScope = 2
)
// IPv6EmptySubnet is the empty IPv6 subnet. It may also be known as the
@@ -340,6 +353,12 @@ func IsV6LinkLocalAddress(addr tcpip.Address) bool {
return addr[0] == 0xfe && (addr[1]&0xc0) == 0x80
}
+// IsV6LinkLocalMulticastAddress determines if the provided address is an IPv6
+// link-local multicast address.
+func IsV6LinkLocalMulticastAddress(addr tcpip.Address) bool {
+ return IsV6MulticastAddress(addr) && addr[ipv6MulticastAddressScopeByteIdx]&ipv6MulticastAddressScopeMask == ipv6LinkLocalMulticastScope
+}
+
// IsV6UniqueLocalAddress determines if the provided address is an IPv6
// unique-local address (within the prefix FC00::/7).
func IsV6UniqueLocalAddress(addr tcpip.Address) bool {
@@ -411,6 +430,9 @@ func ScopeForIPv6Address(addr tcpip.Address) (IPv6AddressScope, *tcpip.Error) {
}
switch {
+ case IsV6LinkLocalMulticastAddress(addr):
+ return LinkLocalScope, nil
+
case IsV6LinkLocalAddress(addr):
return LinkLocalScope, nil