Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10959] Wireshark doesn't parse options after IPv4 MTU Repl
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Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 08:49:58 +0000

Comment # 5 on bug 10959 from 
I understand why Wireshark prefers to keep things simple and stops dissecting
in this case.
FWIW, I believe that each packet should be parsed with the length it is written
with, not with the theoretical length it should be.
For example, if there's a new RFC allowing an option to be in a different
length, the new option would break other options parsing.
Wireshark handles a lot of cases of unknown or invalid parts in the packet
without stop the dissection.
But, to repeat my first sentence, I fully understand why you prefer to keep it
simple here.

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