rte_arp.h(3)

💅 rte_arp.h — the manual page, but make it make sense 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to rte_arp.h(3) — yes, that's the DPDK one, section 3, we're in the library docs now 🫶 this file is literally just the ARP-related defines and it's giving "small but mighty" energy fr fr.

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✨ NAME ✨

rte_arp.h — that's the name, that's the whole vibe, no cap 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

okay so before you can even look at the ARP stuff you gotta bring your friends along, and by friends I mean these two headers, exactly like this, no substitutions:

#include <stdint.h>
#include <rte_ether.h>

💜 Functions 💜

here's what's actually in here — two things, and yes one of them is a struct that lowkey looks like a function in the docs but isn't, don't @ me, that's just how Doxygen woke up that day 😭

struct __rte_aligned (2) __rte_packed_begin rte_arp_ipv4
struct rte_mbuf * rte_net_make_rarp_packet (struct rte_mempool *mpool,
    const struct rte_ether_addr *mac)

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🎀 Detailed Description 🎀

ARP-related defines ✨ that's it, that's the description, main character energy but make it concise 💅

this thing is a Definition in file rte_arp.h — so like, it lives there, that's its home 🏠

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🔥 Function Documentation 🔥

🌈 struct __rte_aligned (2) 🌈

this is the ARP header IPv4 payload 👑 iconic, packed, aligned to 2, doing the absolute most.

here's the field-by-field breakdown, and I'm keeping every single one because every single one matters:

• < sender hardware address 😤
• < sender IP address 📮
• < target hardware address 🎯
• < target IP address 🏁
• < format of hardware address 🧾
• < format of protocol address 📜
• < length of hardware address 📏
• < length of protocol address 📐
• < ARP opcode (command) ⚡

Definition at line 1 of file rte_arp.h. ✨

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🧚 struct rte_mbuf* rte_net_make_rarp_packet (struct rte_mempool * mpool, const struct rte_ether_addr * mac) 🧚

Make a RARP packet based on MAC addr. 🦋 yes bestie, RARP, not ARP, we're going backwards up in here, it's reverse o'clock ⏪

💖 Parameters 💖

• mpool — Pointer to the rte_mempool 🏊 that's your memory pool, that's where the packet's gonna come from
• mac — Pointer to the MAC addr 🍓 the address we're building this whole thing around

⭐ Returns ⭐

• RARP packet pointer on success 🎉 or NULL on error 💀

no in-between, it's giving binary success/failure realness 🙈

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👑 Author 👑

Generated automatically by Doxygen for DPDK from the source code. 🤖 so like, no human wrote this, a robot did, and honestly? it ate. periodt.

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