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Re:WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation ... by netr0ute on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:21PM (#28042112)
>IPSec is Internet Layer

Technically not, since IPSec can also be tunneled over UDP which then turns it into an application layer protocol.

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Re:WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation ... by perryizgr8 on Monday August 02, 2021 @09:34PM (#28044790)
I don't think it works like that. Vxlan can tunnel ethernet frames over UDP, but that doesn't make Ethernet an application layer protocol.
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Re:WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation ... by shawnz on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:27AM (#28045954)
These semantic issues are why "layers" are a terrible way of classifying network protocols
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