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-rw-r--r--pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go9
-rw-r--r--pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go3
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go
index d0d1efd0d..680eafd16 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go
@@ -315,3 +315,12 @@ func IsV4MulticastAddress(addr tcpip.Address) bool {
}
return (addr[0] & 0xf0) == 0xe0
}
+
+// IsV4LoopbackAddress determines if the provided address is an IPv4 loopback
+// address (belongs to 127.0.0.1/8 subnet).
+func IsV4LoopbackAddress(addr tcpip.Address) bool {
+ if len(addr) != IPv4AddressSize {
+ return false
+ }
+ return addr[0] == 0x7f
+}
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
index 4f367fe4c..ea3823898 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ const (
// section 5.
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"