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Date:      Tue, 19 Sep 1995 17:26:22 -0400
From:      "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   TTL decrement
Message-ID:  <199509192126.RAA11729@Glock.COM>

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	Ok, if you saw my previous message, you know what my network setup
looks like.  If not, basically I'm on a port of a hub that only wants to
see one hardware address, but doesn't mind multiple ip addresses.  I'm
going to setup a freebsd 2.0.5R box as a proxy arp, ip forwarding machine,
with two to three machines hanging off it that it proxy arps and forwards
to, and on its other interface it will be connected to the hub mentioned
above.  I don't want this machine to show up to nosy people who traceroute
to my internal machines and such, so what I was wondering is if given this
limited network situation, and considering I can guarantee it won't change,
is it ok to go ahead and remove the TTL decrement on packets it forwards
across the two interfaces?  Anyone know of any problems this might cause?


-matt

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Matthew C. Mead

mmead@Glock.COM              | Network Administration and Software Development
http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/ | Consulting: BizNet Technologies -> mmead@bnt.com



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