Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 07:39:40 +0200 (WET) From: Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: why TTL set to 64? Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.10.10201170737460.144970-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi>
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I wonder why freebsd started to set the TTL to 64. Is there any reasons? Cisco uses 255 for example Doesnt this mean if a place is on a little slow network and many hops far away then the packets will be discarded by the routers if TTL reaches 0 before the packet reaches destination? Evren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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