Paolo Valerio <[email protected]> writes:

> The next header contained in the last extension header of the IPv6
> later frags still contain the information of the upper layer protocol
> number.
>
> Similarly to what OvS does for IPv4, allow L4 matches for later IPv6
> frags as well by processing later frags and storing the nw_proto
> information.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valerio <[email protected]>
> ---

Digging in, I could never find a reason why ipv6 was treated differently
in this manner, but I guess there could be cases where the header layout
could cause problems (see the top of the while() block).  I don't know
that it's a practical concern (other values are probably less common),
but it was the only thing I could come up with for why the match might
behave this way.  I haven't done enough mailing list archeology to have
a good idea.

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