Re: Updating to RFC6434 to deal with 8200-style header insertion by IPIP

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 02 November 2017 11:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: Updating to RFC6434 to deal with 8200-style header insertion by IPIP
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C. M. Heard <heard@pobox.com> wrote:
    > On Wed, 01 Nov 2017, Michael Richardson wrote:
    >> Yet we skip other extension headers in order to find the ULP.

    > Not so. An end node that encounters an unrecognized extension header is

Both AH and IPIP are well known and recognized extension headers.

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