EUI64(3)

NAME
eui64, eui64_aton, eui64_ntoa, eui64_ntohost, eui64_hostton - IEEE EUI-64 conversion and lookup routines

LIBRARY
libc

SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/eui64.h>
int
eui64_aton(const char *a, struct eui64 *e);
int
eui64_ntoa(const struct eui64 *id, char *a, size_t len);
int
eui64_ntohost(char *hostname, size_t len, const struct eui64 *id);
int
eui64_hostton(const char *hostname, struct eui64 *id);

DESCRIPTION
These functions operate on IEEE EUI-64s using an eui64 structure, which is defined in the header file <sys/eui64.h>:

    /*
     * The number of bytes in an EUI-64.
     */
    #define EUI64_LEN		8
    /*
     * Structure of an IEEE EUI-64.
     */
    struct  eui64 {
            u_char octet[EUI64_LEN];
    };

The eui64_aton() function converts an ASCII representation of an EUI-64 into an eui64 structure. Likewise, eui64_ntoa() converts an EUI-64 specified as an eui64 structure into an ASCII string.

The eui64_ntohost() and eui64_hostton() functions map EUI-64s to their corresponding hostnames as specified in the /etc/eui64 database. The eui64_ntohost() function converts from EUI-64 to hostname, and eui64_hostton() converts from hostname to EUI-64.

RETURN VALUES
On success, eui64_ntoa() returns a pointer to a string containing an ASCII representation of an EUI-64. If it is unable to convert the supplied eui64 structure, it returns a NULL pointer. Likewise, eui64_aton() returns a pointer to an eui64 structure on success and a NULL pointer on failure.

The eui64_ntohost() and eui64_hostton() functions both return zero on success or non-zero if they were unable to find a match in the /etc/eui64 database.

NOTES
The user must insure that the hostname strings passed to the eui64_ntohost() and eui64_hostton() functions are large enough to contain the returned hostnames.

NIS INTERACTION
If the /etc/eui64 contains a line with a single ‘+’ in it, the eui64_ntohost() and eui64_hostton() functions will attempt to consult the NIS eui64.byname and eui64.byid maps in addition to the data in the /etc/eui64 file.

SEE ALSO
firewire(4), eui64(5), yp(8)

HISTORY
These functions first appears in FreeBSD 5.3. They are derived from the ethers(3) family of functions.

BUGS
The eui64_aton() and eui64_ntoa() functions returns values that are stored in static memory areas which may be overwritten the next time they are called.