Re: Strange Network Problem (TTL?)
At 08:33 PM 3/9/00 +0100, Paul van Empelen wrote:
>Ping will show you the TTL of the returning icmp packet. I can't tell you
>exactly what the TTL does on the iron where the ping packet will bounce.
So each host implements it's own time-to-live for it's ICMP packets? I take
it that's the maximum time a host will wait to here a ping echo? Possibly a
way to keep hosts from waiting ad infinitum for echos and thereby hogging up
stack space.
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