Crate use_mac 

use-mac

use-mac provides small helpers for parsing, formatting, and normalizing MAC addresses.

Experimental: this crate is below 0.3.0 and the API may change.

Example Usage

use use_mac::{normalize_mac, parse_mac_address};

let mac = parse_mac_address("00-1A-2B-3C-4D-5E").unwrap();

assert_eq!(normalize_mac("001A2B3C4D5E"), Some("00:1A:2B:3C:4D:5E".to_string()));
assert_eq!(mac.octets, [0x00, 0x1A, 0x2B, 0x3C, 0x4D, 0x5E]);

Scope

• Parsing common MAC address formats.
• Formatting helpers for colon and hyphen output.
• Small helpers for broadcast and zero-address checks.

Non-goals

• Vendor lookup.
• Network adapter inspection.
• Packet parsing.

License

Licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

Structs

MacAddress

Stores a parsed MAC address.

Functions

format_mac_colon

Formats a MAC address using colon separators.

format_mac_hyphen

Formats a MAC address using hyphen separators.

is_broadcast_mac

Returns true when the MAC address is the all-ones broadcast address.

is_mac_address

Returns true when the input is a valid MAC address in a supported format.

is_zero_mac

Returns true when the MAC address is the all-zero address.

normalize_mac

Normalizes a MAC address to uppercase colon-separated form.

parse_mac_address

Parses a MAC address from a common textual format.