On Feb 8, 2015, at 11:58 PM, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> A middlebox that is trying to flush out a specific type of
> upper layer protocol (such as DHCPv6) needs to parse all extension
> headers, including ones it doesn't understand, in case there is
> an instance of the upper layer protocol behind it.
> 
> In the real world, that means that such middleboxes, if they are
> of the paranoid security persuasion, will discard packets that,
> as far as they are concerned, are unparseable.

Can you explain, in detail, what a DHCPv6 packet would look like that would get 
past a filter because either it used unknown extension headers, or an unknown 
protocol header?

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