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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
| commit | 253e67c8b3a72b3a4757fdbc5845297628db0a4a (patch) | |
| tree | adf53b66087aa30dfbf8bf391a1dadb044c3bf4d /static/netbsd/man3/linkaddr.3 | |
| parent | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (diff) | |
docs: Added All NetBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man3/linkaddr.3 b/static/netbsd/man3/linkaddr.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c83d3109 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man3/linkaddr.3 @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: linkaddr.3,v 1.13 2017/07/03 21:32:49 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" Donn Seeley at BSDI. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)linkaddr.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 7/28/93 +.\" +.Dd December 7, 2016 +.Dt LINK_ADDR 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm link_addr , +.Nm link_ntoa +.Nd elementary address specification routines for link level access +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/types.h +.In sys/socket.h +.In net/if_dl.h +.Ft void +.Fn link_addr "const char *addr" "struct sockaddr_dl *sdl" +.Ft char * +.Fn link_ntoa "const struct sockaddr_dl *sdl" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The routine +.Fn link_addr +interprets character strings representing link-level addresses, +returning binary information suitable for use in system calls. +The routine +.Fn link_ntoa +takes a link-level address and returns an +.Tn ASCII +string representing some of the information present, including the +link level address itself, and the interface name or number, if present. +This facility is experimental and is still subject to change. +.Pp +Prior to a call to +.Fn link_addr , +.Fa sdl->sdl_len +must be initialized to the size of the link-level socket structure, +typically +.Fa sizeof(struct sockaddr_dl) . +.Pp +For +.Fn link_addr , +the string +.Fa addr +may contain +an optional network interface identifier of the form +.Dq "name unit-number" , +suitable for the first argument to +.Xr ifconfig 8 , +followed in all cases by a colon and +an interface address in the form of +groups of hexadecimal digits +separated by periods. +Each group represents a byte of address; +address bytes are filled left to right from +low order bytes through high order bytes. +.Pp +.\" A regular expression may make this format clearer: +.\" .Bd -literal -offset indent +.\" ([a-z]+[0-9]+:)?[0-9a-f]+(\e.[0-9a-f]+)* +.\" .Ed +.\" .Pp +Thus +.Li le0:8.0.9.13.d.30 +represents an ethernet address +to be transmitted on the first Lance ethernet interface. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Fn link_ntoa +always returns a null terminated string. +.Fn link_addr +has no return value (See +.Sx BUGS ) . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr ethers 3 , +.Xr iso 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn link_addr +and +.Fn link_ntoa +functions appeared in +.Bx 4.3 Reno . +.Sh BUGS +The returned string for +.Fn link_ntoa +resides in a static memory area. +If it would overflow this area, +.Fn link_ntoa +silently truncates the result. +.Pp +The function +.Fn link_addr +should diagnose improperly formed input, and there should be an unambiguous +way to recognize this. +.Pp +If the +.Va sdl_len +field of the link socket address +.Fa sdl +is 0, +.Fn link_ntoa +will not insert a colon before the interface address bytes. +If this translated address is given to +.Fn link_addr +without inserting an initial colon, +the latter will not interpret it correctly. |
