An ethernet network device, this relates directly to a physical network card in the machine. A device may have zero or more attached protocols, each protocol intercepts an ethernet id number. Where a protocol requires another protocol to be of use, e.g. ARP with IPv4, the dependency will be added automatically by other protocols that require it. More...

Collaboration diagram for netdev:

Public Attributes
char	name [16]

char *	description

uint16_t	speed

uint8_t	flags

uint16_t	mtu

uint8_t	num_netprotos

netproto_t *	netproto

Detailed Description

An ethernet network device, this relates directly to a physical network card in the machine. A device may have zero or more attached protocols, each protocol intercepts an ethernet id number. Where a protocol requires another protocol to be of use, e.g. ARP with IPv4, the dependency will be added automatically by other protocols that require it.

Member Data Documentation

◆ description

char* netdev::description

◆ flags

uint8_t netdev::flags

◆ mtu

uint16_t netdev::mtu

◆ name

char netdev::name[16]

◆ netproto

netproto_t* netdev::netproto

◆ num_netprotos

uint8_t netdev::num_netprotos

◆ speed

uint16_t netdev::speed

Public Attributes