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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by anticensor on Monday November 03, 2025 @08:47AM (#45798891)
Your box should just treat that unknown protocol as a raw IP traffic, instead of dropping it.
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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by tsimionescu on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @01:44AM (#45820021)
Probably, but again: why would you want to send raw IP traffic rather than UDP? What are the disadvantages of building your protocol on top of UDP instead of building it on top of raw IP, for an Internet protocol?
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