Re: [v6ops] [ipv6-wg] Extension Headers / Impact on Security Devices

sthaug@nethelp.no Wed, 17 June 2015 13:27 UTC

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> So we all agree that 'variable length is OK as long as our hardware
> can look deep enough'? And what people are complaining about is exact
> number? Which we do not know yet for IPv6 EHs?

Agreed, variable length *by itself* is not the problem.

I see *large* variable length headers, in combination with complex
parsing rules, as the problem.

Steinar Haug, AS 2116