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Options Headers
- Separating Hop-by-hop and Destination is useful:
- not all options are examined along a packet's delivery path
- encryption
- fragmentation
- Hop-by-Hop Options: for every nodes along a path
- Destination Options: for a packet's destination node(s)
- A variable number of variable-length options
More information is available on the
graphics version.