Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9996] IPv6 Next Header is Unknown yet Wireshark tries pars

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From: bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 08:47:09 +0000

Comment # 10 on bug 9996 from 
(In reply to comment #9)
> From code (packet-ipv6.c)
> 
>         switch (nxt) {
> [...]
>         default:
>             /* Since we did not recognize this IPv6 option, check
>              * whether it is a known protocol. If not, then it
>              * is an unknown IPv6 option
>              */

Assuming this talks about IPv6 extension headers and not about IPv6 options,
why would we assume an unknown next protocol is an unknown IPv6 extension
header?

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