On 6/12/2013 2:44 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
Unless the router in question knows what that HBH header will do (read: it was implemented when the definition of that header was defined) or what it should do with it, it won't be able to do anything with it anyway. Thus just ignoring/skipping it, heck not parsing any headers at all, will be quite fine...
The only valid way to ignore the HBH header is when all its component options are "00" - skip option if not supported.
If you don't check that, then you don't know whether it's valid to ignore the options. That would interfere with the semantics of options defined as "discard" or "discard and inform".
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