namespace senf {
/** \brief Ethernet MAC address
-
+
The Ethernet MAC is modelled as a fixed-size container/sequence of 6 bytes.
The following statements all create the same MAC address <code>00:1A:2B:3C:4D:5F</code>
\ingroup addr_group
*/
struct MACAddress
- : public boost::array<boost::uint8_t,6>,
+ : public boost::array<boost::uint8_t,6>,
public comparable_safe_bool<MACAddress>
{
static MACAddress const Broadcast; ///< The broadcast address
accepted as a delimiter.
\throws AddressSyntaxException */
- template <class InputIterator>
+ template <class InputIterator>
static MACAddress from_data(InputIterator i);
///< Construct address from raw data
/**< Copies the data from \a i into the MAC address.
boost::uint32_t oui() const; ///< Return first 3 bytes of the address
boost::uint32_t nic() const; ///< Return last 3 bytes of the address
-
- boost::uint64_t eui64() const; ///< Build EUI-64 from the MAC address
- boost::uint64_t uint64() const; ///< Return MAC address as uint64 value
-
- std::string toString() const; ///< Return string representation of MAC address like 12:34:56:78:90:ab
+ boost::uint64_t eui64() const; ///< Build EUI-64 from the MAC address
+ boost::uint64_t uint64() const; ///< Return MAC address as uint64 value
};
- /** \brief Write MAC address
+ /** \brief Output MAC instance as it's string representation
\related MACAddress
*/
std::ostream & operator<<(std::ostream & os, MACAddress const & mac);
+ /** \brief Try to initialize MACAddress instance from a string representation
+ sets std::ios::failbit on the stream if an error occurred
+ \see MACAddress from_string()
+ \related MACAddress
+ */
+ std::istream & operator>>(std::istream & os, MACAddress & mac);
}
//#include "MACAddress.cti"
#endif
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+
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