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nic_strtomac()

Convert a MAC address

Synopsis:

int nic_strtomac  ( const char *s,
                  unsigned char *mac)

Arguments:

s

A pointer to the MAC address string.

mac

A pointer to the MAC address to convert.

Description:

The nic_strtomac() function converts a MAC address from a string form to a numeric form. The string may be any of the following forms:

• xxxxxxxxxxxx -- where "x" is a hexidecimal digit in one of the folllowing ranges:
  • 0-9
  • a-z
  • A-Z
• xxxxxxxxxxxx -- where "x" is a hexidecimal digit in one of the folllowing ranges:
  • 0-9
  • a-z
  • A-Z

The nic_strtomac() function assumes that the MAC address is six-bytes long.

Returns:

non-zero if the MAC address is invalid; 0 if it's valid.

Classification:

QNX Neutrino