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EUI64(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual EUI64(3)

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

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

#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);

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.

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.

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

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.

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

These functions first appears in FreeBSD 5.3. They are derived from the ethers(3) family of functions.
March 4, 2004 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE

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