From 09bd5a57f3456bb411c34cced923531dc8e0aec7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bhasker Hariharan Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:45:03 -0700 Subject: Clarify comment on NetworkProtocolNumber. The actual values used for this field in Netstack are actually EtherType values of the protocol in an Ethernet frame. Eg. header.IPv4ProtocolNumber is 0x0800 and not the number of the IPv4 Protocol Number itself which is 4. Similarly header.IPv6ProtocolNumber is set to 0x86DD whereas the IPv6 protocol number is 41. See: - https://www.iana.org/assignments/ieee-802-numbers/ieee-802-numbers.xhtml (For EtherType) - https://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers/protocol-numbers.xhtml (For ProtocolNumbers) PiperOrigin-RevId: 328407293 --- pkg/tcpip/tcpip.go | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'pkg/tcpip/tcpip.go') diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/tcpip.go b/pkg/tcpip/tcpip.go index 44f87e007..609b8af33 100644 --- a/pkg/tcpip/tcpip.go +++ b/pkg/tcpip/tcpip.go @@ -1029,7 +1029,10 @@ func (r Route) String() string { // TransportProtocolNumber is the number of a transport protocol. type TransportProtocolNumber uint32 -// NetworkProtocolNumber is the number of a network protocol. +// NetworkProtocolNumber is the EtherType of a network protocol in an Ethernet +// frame. +// +// See: https://www.iana.org/assignments/ieee-802-numbers/ieee-802-numbers.xhtml type NetworkProtocolNumber uint32 // A StatCounter keeps track of a statistic. -- cgit v1.2.3