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Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 14:33:37 +0200
From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: [[NET-NEXT]] Added dump function to recognise rpl extension
 header option(63)
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Stefan Schmidt <stefan@osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> ipv6: ext_header: add function to handle RPL option 0x63

But its not handled, is it?

The kernel tosses it because the RPL option/RFC says so
('nodes that do not understand this option on a received
 packet MUST discard the packet.').