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   Message 13,189 of 14,669   
   Martijn Lievaart to Jorgen Grahn   
   Re: UDP over IPv4/IPv6   
   15 Nov 09 22:26:46   
   
   From: m@rtij.nl.invlalid   
      
   On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:02:47 +0000, Jorgen Grahn wrote:   
      
   >   
   > People who know more will have to correct me, but I think you *do* have   
   > that functionality in IPv4. You have the IP options, and you can stick a   
   > header between the IP header and the UDP or TCP header (like IPSEC   
   > does).  It's just less elegant and efficient (I think someone upthread   
   > mentioned that).   
      
   There are tcp options and as a special case, the ipv6 header chaining is   
   used in ipv4 for ipsec, and for ipsec only.   
      
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