On Apr 21, 2004, at 4:14 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> What side effects if any are there? Why is the default 64 and not
> some other number like 255...
The default TTL gets decremented with every hop, which means that a
packet coming in with a TTL of 255 had to be sent by a directly
connected system. [ip_ttl is an octet, so it can't hold a larger TTL
value.] A packet with a TTL of 64 could have been many hops away.
--
-Chuck
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