From 37a11525dfcace8c2f782d42fb9435a377be8b3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: YAMAMOTO Takashi Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:55:02 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] note about network address representation Signed-off-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori --- doc/source/library_packet.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/source/library_packet.rst b/doc/source/library_packet.rst index 70340f6e..b4a5d919 100644 --- a/doc/source/library_packet.rst +++ b/doc/source/library_packet.rst @@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ packets. dpkt is the popular library for the same purpose, however it is not designed to handle protocols that are interleaved; vlan, mpls, gre, etc. So we implemented our own packet library. +Network Addresses +================= + +Unless otherwise specified, MAC/IPv4/IPv6 addresses are specified +using human readable strings for this library. +For example, '08:60:6e:7f:74:e7', '192.0.2.1', 'fe80::a60:6eff:fe7f:74e7'. + Parsing Packet ==============