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by bchallenor 3049 days ago
TCP and UDP are "IP protocols" in that their packets are nested directly inside an IP packet and they have associated protocol numbers [1] to distinguish them from other things that might be inside an IP packet. QUIC theoretically deserves to be one of these too but for pragmatic reasons it has to be nested inside UDP. GP is asserting that `-p quic` will not be implemented, because it would be a layering violation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IP_protocol_numbers

2 comments

Exactly! Thank you for putting in the time to elaborate what I meant.
Ahh, thanks!