[shim6] How long is a shim6 header?

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 29 October 2013 18:53 UTC

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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Subject: [shim6] How long is a shim6 header?
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Hi,

Does anyone have a quick answer to this question: how big is the
biggest SHIM6 extension header that is likely to occur in practice?

As far as I can see, it's at least 40 bytes.

The context for this question is draft-wkumari-long-headers.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter