Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6925] IPv6 TCP packets with invalid hop-by-hop headers are
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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:54:51 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6925

Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|IPv6 TCP packets with       |IPv6 TCP packets with
                   |invalid hop-by-hop headers  |invalid hop-by-hop headers
                   |are not discarded.          |are not ignored by Follow
                   |                            |TCP Stream

--- Comment #4 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-03-09 23:54:51 PST ---
Wireshark should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever discard a packet because it's
not valid - one of the reasons why people use Wireshark is to see what the
cause of a networking problem is, and the cause might be invalid packets.

Perhaps it should, however, *ignore*, when doing "Follow TCP Stream" or
reassembly or other forms of packet group processing, invalid packets that a
protocol implementation is supposed to discard.

Title changed to reflect that.

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