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Re:Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks by MandieD on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:18PM (#28764290)
Do you use a VPN to connect your corporate laptop to your employer’s network from home? Do you use Wireguard, or its easier-to-use derivative, Tailescale, to connect any of your devices? Do you use any form of VOIP (Voice over IP)?

(Edited because I forgot the big one) Have you ever used a name and not an IP address to connect to something on the internet?

Congratulations! You’re a UDP user!

Re:Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks by cannabis_sam on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:41PM (#28764571)
Yes! I absolutely use UDP!

I once built a prototype network stack on top of a udp library that simulated a physical network layer..

Doesn’t change the fact that tcp/ip was the network stack that enabled the internet.

But I was trying to sidestep that tangent by mentioning link layer protocols in my second paragraph.