google_mac Struct Reference

A Google Cloud MAC address. More...

#include <gve.h>

Data Fields
uint8_t	reserved [2]
	Reserved. More...
struct in_addr	in
	Local IPv4 address. More...

Detailed Description

A Google Cloud MAC address.

Google Cloud locally assigned MAC addresses encode the local IPv4 address in the trailing 32 bits, presumably as a performance optimisation to allow ARP resolution to be skipped by a suitably aware network stack.

Definition at line 34 of file gve.h.

Field Documentation

reserved

uint8_t google_mac::reserved[2]

Reserved.

Definition at line 36 of file gve.h.

in

struct in_addr google_mac::in

Local IPv4 address.

Definition at line 38 of file gve.h.

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The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file:

• drivers/net/gve.h