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// -*- c-basic-offset: 4; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: t -*-

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// $XORP: xorp/libxorp/mac.hh,v 1.11 2007/02/16 22:46:20 pavlin Exp $

#ifndef __LIBXORP_MAC_HH__
#define __LIBXORP_MAC_HH__

#include "libxorp/xorp.h"
#include "libxorp/ether_compat.h"
#include "libxorp/exceptions.hh"


/**
 * @short MAC exceptions.
 *
 * The exception which is thrown when an illegal operation is
 * attempted on a MAC.
 */
class BadMac : public XorpReasonedException {
public:
    BadMac(const char* file, size_t line, const string init_why = "") 
	: XorpReasonedException("Incompatible Mac conversion",
				file, line, init_why) {}
};

/**
 * @short Generic container for any type of MAC.
 *
 * A class intended to carry any type of MAC. The assumption is
 * that all current and future MAC classes will have a printable
 * string representation and can be treated as opaque identifiers.
 */
class Mac {
public:
    /**
     * Default constructor
     */
    Mac() {}

    /**
     * Construct MAC address from string.  Mac address format must conform
     * to one of known types.
     *
     * @param s string representation of mac.
     * @throws InvalidString if s is not recognized Mac type.
     */
    Mac(const string& s) throw (InvalidString);

    /**
     * @return string representation of MAC address.
     */
    inline const string& str() const { return _srep; }

    /**
     * Get the normalized string of MAC address.
     *
     * For example, in case of Ethernet MAC address, the original
     * string with an EtherMAC address is converted into
     * an "struct ether_addr", and then back to a string.
     * Thus, the string address representation is normalized
     * to the system's internal preference. Example:
     * "00:00:00:00:00:00" -> "0:0:0:0:0:0"
     *
     * @return normalized string representation of MAC address.
     */
    string normalized_str() const;

    /**
     * @return true if MAC address value is unset.
     */
    inline bool empty() const { return _srep.empty(); }

protected:
    inline void set_rep(const string& s) { _srep = s; }
    string _srep;
};

//
// EtherMac is really IEEE standard 6 octet address
//
class EtherMac : public Mac {
public:
    /**
     * Default constructor
     */
    EtherMac() : Mac() {}

    /**
     * Construct EtherMac from a string representation.
     *
     * @param s string representation of the form XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX where
     *          X represents a hex-digit.
     * @throws InvalidString if string passed does not match expected format.
     */
    EtherMac(const string& s) throw (InvalidString);

    /**
     * Construct EtherMac from Mac. 
     *
     * @param m Mac to construct EtherMac from.
     *
     * @throws BadMac if the Mac's string representation is not equivalent to 
     * the EtherMac's string representation.
     */
    EtherMac(const Mac& m) throw (BadMac);

    /**
     * Construct EtherMac from ether_addr.
     */
    EtherMac(const ether_addr& ea) throw (BadMac);
    
    /**
     * Convert to ether_addr representation.
     *
     * @param ea ether_addr to store representation.
     * @return true on success, false if underlying string is empty.
     */
    bool 
    get_ether_addr(struct ether_addr& ea) const;

    /**
     * Check whether string contains valid EtherMac representation.
     *
     * @param s potential EtherMac string representation.
     * @return true if s is valid, false otherwise.
     */
    static bool valid(const string& s);

    /**
     * Normalize the string representation of an EtherMac address.
     *
     * Convert the string with an EtherMAC address into
     * an "struct ether_addr", and then back to a string.
     * Thus, the string address representation is normalized
     * to the system's internal preference. Example:
     * "00:00:00:00:00:00" -> "0:0:0:0:0:0"
     *
     * @param s the string with the EtherMac address to normalize.
     * @return a string with the normalized EtherMac address.
     */
    static string normalize(const string& s) throw (InvalidString);
};

inline bool
operator==(const Mac& m1, const Mac& m2)
{
    return m1.normalized_str() == m2.normalized_str();
}

inline bool
operator==(const EtherMac& m1, const EtherMac& m2)
{
    struct ether_addr ea1, ea2;

    if (m1.get_ether_addr(ea1) != true)
	return false;
    if (m2.get_ether_addr(ea2) != true)
	return false;
    return (memcmp(&ea1, &ea2, sizeof(ea1)) == 0);
}

#endif // __LIBXORP_MAC_HH__

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