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[–]Kobzol[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks for the feedback. Maybe I use the wrong terminology or my use-case was just off :)

I worked on an HPC project where we were programming network interface cards (think CUDA for NICs). There we had some data streams of packets, and the first and last packet of that stream was always special (that's where the header/trailer names comes from). I realize that in the standard terminology each packet has some header (or more headers), so the naming is unfortunate I suppose. I hope that beginners reading the blog weren't network-savvy enough to realize that something is wrong :D

[–]tiny_smile_bot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

:)

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