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by dgemm 1050 days ago
Even well-behaved unfragmented UDP should be more expensive to NAT because it doesn't have an end-of-stream "FIN" marker, meaning stateful middleboxes need to retain state for longer because they can only time out.
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Timeouts on UDP are usually much shorter than TCP, so it's not as bad as it sounds.