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Colloquially, yes, they're all just packets unless I'm writing an RFC for the IETF. If I recall correctly, the formal term for the all-encompassing category is
by ooterness 2y ago
Colloquially, yes, they're all just packets unless I'm writing an RFC for the IETF.
If I recall correctly, the formal term for the all-encompassing category is the "datagram".
It's like who-vs-whom. Prescriptivists will try to tilt that windmill forever, descriptivists observe that most people just don't care.