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Comment by jeffbee

1 day ago

That's fair. Of course that post also calls the OSI model "unfortunate" and "a poor approximation".

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nyrikki  36 minutes ago

All models are wrong, some are useful.

Layer 4 to 7 is useful in this case, as layer 4 involves forging tcp/udp packets, which is vastly different than say a http level reverse proxy.

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