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30.Dd March 3, 1997
31.Dt ETHERSUBR 9
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm ethersubr ,
35.Nm ether_ifattach ,
36.Nm ether_addmulti ,
37.Nm ether_delmulti ,
38.Nm ETHER_FIRST_MULTI ,
39.Nm ETHER_NEXT_MULTI ,
40.Nm ETHER_IS_MULTICAST ,
41.Nm fddi_ifattach ,
42.Nm fddi_addmulti ,
43.Nm fddi_delmulti
44.Nd Ethernet and FDDI driver support functions and macros
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.In net/if_ether.h
47.Ft void
48.Fn ether_ifattach "struct ifnet *ifp" "uint8_t *lla"
49.Ft int
50.Fn ether_addmulti "const struct sockaddr *sa" "struct ethercom *ec"
51.Ft int
52.Fn ether_delmulti "const struct sockaddr *sa" "struct ethercom *ec"
53.Ft void
54.Fn ETHER_FIRST_MULTI "struct ether_multistep step" "struct ethercom *ec" "struct ether_multi *enm"
55.Ft void
56.Fn ETHER_NEXT_MULTI  "struct ether_multistep step" "struct ether_multi *enm"
57.Ft int
58.Fn ETHER_IS_MULTICAST "uint8_t *addr"
59.In net/if_fddi.h
60.Ft void
61.Fn fddi_ifattach "struct ifnet *ifp" "uint8_t *lla"
62.Ft int
63.Fn fddi_addmulti "const struct sockaddr *sa" "struct ethercom *ec"
64.Ft int
65.Fn fddi_delmulti "const struct sockaddr *sa" "struct ethercom *ec"
66.Sh DESCRIPTION
67The
68.Nm
69functions provide the interface between the
70.Nm
71module and the network drivers which need Ethernet support.
72Such drivers must request the
73.Ar ether
74attribute in their
75.Ar files
76declaration and call the appropriate functions as specified below.
77.Pp
78FDDI drivers must request the "fddi" attribute in their "files"
79declaration and call the functions tagged with "fddi_" or "FDDI_"
80instead, where different.
81Some macros are shared.
82.Pp
83Note that you also need the
84.Xr arp 9
85stuff to support IPv4 on your hardware.
86.Bl -tag -width compact
87.It Fn ether_ifattach
88Perform the device-independent, but Ethernet-specific initialization of
89the interface pointed to by
90.Fa ifp .
91.Pp
92Among other duties, this function creates a record for the link level
93address in the interface's address list and records the link level address
94pointed to by
95.Fa lla
96there.
97.Pp
98You must call this function from the driver's attach function.
99.It Fn fddi_ifattach
100corresponding function for FDDI devices.
101.It Fn ether_addmulti
102.It Fn ether_delmulti
103Add
104.Pq Fn ether_addmulti
105or delete
106.Pq Fn ether_delmulti
107the address described by the
108.Fa sa
109pointer to the Ethernet multicast list belonging to
110.Fa ec .
111.Pp
112These functions must be called from the driver's ioctl function to
113handle
114.Dv SIOCADDMULTI
115and
116.Dv SIOCDELMULTI
117requests.
118If they return
119.Er ENETRESET ,
120the hardware multicast filter must be reinitialized.
121.Pp
122These functions accept
123.Dv AF_UNSPEC
124addresses, which are interpreted as Ethernet addresses, or
125.Dv AF_INET
126addresses.
127In the latter case,
128.Dv INADDR_ANY
129is mapped to a range describing all the Ethernet address
130space reserved for IPv4 multicast addresses.
131.Pp
132.Fn ether_addmulti
133returns
134.Er EAFNOSUPPORT
135if an unsupported address family is specified,
136.Er EINVAL
137if a non-multicast address is specified, or
138.Er ENETRESET
139if
140the multicast list really changed and the driver should synchronize
141its hardware filter with it.
142.Pp
143.Fn ether_delmulti
144returns, in addition to the above errors,
145.Er ENXIO
146if the specified address
147can't be found in the list of multicast addresses.
148.It Fn fddi_addmulti
149.It Fn fddi_delmulti
150corresponding functions for FDDI devices.
151.It Fn ETHER_NEXT_MULTI
152is a macro to step through all of the ether_multi records, one at a time.
153The current position is remembered in
154.Fa step ,
155which the caller must provide.
156.It Fn ETHER_FIRST_MULTI
157must be called to initialize
158.Fa step
159and get the first record.
160Both macros return a
161.Dv NULL
162.Fa enm
163when there are no remaining records.
164.It Fn ETHER_IS_MULTICAST
165returns 1, if
166.Fa addr
167points to an Ethernet/FDDI multicast (or broadcast) address.
168Implemented as a macro.
169.El
170.Sh SEE ALSO
171.Xr arp 9
172.Sh AUTHORS
173UCB CSRG (original implementation)
174.Pp
175Ignatios Souvatzis (support for new ARP system)
176.Sh CODE REFERENCES
177Ethernet support functions are declared in
178.Aq Pa net/if_ether.h
179and defined (if not implemented as macro) in
180.Pa /usr/src/sys/net/if_ethersubr.c .
181.Pp
182FDDI support functions are declared in
183.Aq Pa net/if_fddi.h
184and defined (if not implemented as macro) in
185.Pa /usr/src/sys/net/if_fddisubr.c .
186.Sh HISTORY
187Rewritten to attach to the new ARP system in
188.Nx 1.3 .
189