p2p/netutil: new package for network utilities

The new package contains three things for now:

- IP network list parsing and matching
- The WSAEMSGSIZE workaround, which is duplicated in p2p/discover and
  p2p/discv5.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/p2p/netutil/error.go b/p2p/netutil/error.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cb21b9cd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p2p/netutil/error.go
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+// Copyright 2016 The go-ethereum Authors
+// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
+//
+// The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// The go-ethereum library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+// along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+package netutil
+
+// IsTemporaryError checks whether the given error should be considered temporary.
+func IsTemporaryError(err error) bool {
+	tempErr, ok := err.(interface {
+		Temporary() bool
+	})
+	return ok && tempErr.Temporary() || isPacketTooBig(err)
+}