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Re: Unknown header extension or option

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Sat, 22 November 2014 14:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: Unknown header extension or option
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Hi, Ole,

On 11/17/2014 05:45 PM, Ole Troan wrote:
[....]
> 
> because there is no way an implementation can skip past an unknown
> header, unless we declared that every new IP protocol must have the
> same field layout in the preamble.

Or that we do this:
<http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-gont-6man-ipv6-universal-extension-header-01.txt>


Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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