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authorYAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>2013-08-01 13:55:02 +0900
committerFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>2013-08-01 14:26:00 +0900
commit37a11525dfcace8c2f782d42fb9435a377be8b3f (patch)
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note about network address representation
Signed-off-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ packets. dpkt is the popular library for the same purpose, however it
is not designed to handle protocols that are interleaved; vlan, mpls,
gre, etc. So we implemented our own packet library.
+Network Addresses
+=================
+
+Unless otherwise specified, MAC/IPv4/IPv6 addresses are specified
+using human readable strings for this library.
+For example, '08:60:6e:7f:74:e7', '192.0.2.1', 'fe80::a60:6eff:fe7f:74e7'.
+
Parsing Packet
==============