Re: Strange Network Problem (TTL?)
At 11:41 PM 3/9/00 +0100, Paul van Empelen wrote:
>Time to live has nothing to do with time, although the name suggests it.
>It is a hop count. You start at e.g. 255. On the next hop the IP packet
>will have a ttl of 254 and so on.
So it's really a max hops limit. How did it get a name like TTL?? What
function does it serve? Besides providing a mechanism to expire lost
packets... What role does each host's TTL setting play in a ping or trace?
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