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		perryizgr8 on Aug 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implemen... 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.

shawnz on Aug 3, 2021 [–]

These semantic issues are why "layers" are a terrible way of classifying network protocols

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