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   Message 13,184 of 14,669   
   Jorgen Grahn to karthikbalaguru   
   Re: UDP over IPv4/IPv6   
   15 Nov 09 15:42:09   
   
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   From: grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se   
      
   On Sun, 2009-11-15, karthikbalaguru wrote:   
   ...   
   > But, i wonder why IPv4 does not have Extension header support ?   
   > Any specific reasons/constraints for the absence of Extension header   
   > support in IPv4 ?   
      
   You're basically asking "why doesn't this old version of IP solve   
   certain problems exactly like this new version does?" I guess it was   
   an improvement, and by definition you don't find those in the version   
   which was improved upon.   
      
   /Jorgen   
      
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