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ipfw: Teach ipfw that EtherIP is an upper layer protocol

Description

ipfw: Teach ipfw that EtherIP is an upper layer protocol

so that we do not discard EtherIP packets ( over IPv6 network ) when
net.inet6.ip6.fw.deny_unknown_exthdrs is set to 1 ( which is the default
value ).

PR: 227450
Reviewed by: ae, network
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52566

(cherry picked from commit 0418e6690e91aa6c38dd9af9da43c4c5a9dc1cd2)
(cherry picked from commit b1c96e54b906d0cdea0b5a9c74cc295803dfe50e)

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Provenance
zleiAuthored on Sep 16 2025, 3:58 PM
Reviewer
network
Differential Revision
D52566: ipfw: Teach ipfw that EtherIP is an upper layer protocol
Parents
rG52dbbe3f37ff: bridge: Fix adding gif(4) interface assigned with IP addresses as bridge memeber
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