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Glossary: TCP/IP in Depth, Part 1

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Also written: nh

The IPv6 field that names what follows the header: 44 for a fragment header, 58 for ICMPv6, 6 for TCP or 17 for UDP. Each extension header has one too, which makes a chain.

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