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		bombcar on April 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Curious Case of Port 0 (2019) [pdf] I’m surprised port zero packets aren’t just randomly dropped by various internet infrastructure devices. Perhaps they’ve been burned by reserved things suddenly becoming used.

zamadatix on April 18, 2021 [–]

Most of the devices on the internet don't even know the packets they are forwarding are TCP/UDP let alone care about which port number is being used.

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