/** \brief Ethernet MAC address
The Ethernet MAC is modelled as a fixed-size container/sequence of 6 bytes.
+
+ \implementation We awkwardly need to use static named constructors (<tt>from_</tt> members)
+ instead of ordinarily overloaded constructors for one simple reason: <tt>char *</tt>
+ doubles as string literal and as arbitrary data iterator. The iterator constructor can
+ therefore not be distinguished from initialization with a string literal. Therefore we
+ need to disambiguate using the named constructors.
*/
struct MACAddress
: public boost::array<boost::uint8_t,6>,
public ComparableSafeBool<MACAddress>
{
+ static MACAddress const Broadcast; ///< The broadcast address
+ static MACAddress const None; ///< The empty (0) address
+
enum NoInit_t { noinit };
MACAddress(); ///< Construct zero-initialized address
MACAddress(NoInit_t); ///< Construct uninitialized (!) address
+ explicit MACAddress(boost::uint64_t v); ///< Construct MACAddress constants
static MACAddress from_string(std::string const & s);
///< Construct address from string representation
EUI-64. */
bool local() const; ///< \c true, if address is locally administered
- bool group() const; ///< \c true, if address is a group/multicast address
+ bool multicast() const; ///< \c true, if address is a group/multicast address
bool broadcast() const; ///< \c true, if address is the broadcast address
bool boolean_test() const; ///< \c true, if address is the zero address