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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 10:58:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: bin/19598: traceroutes default of 30 Hops is too low
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<<On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 07:50:44 -0700 (PDT), <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> The latest 1.4a12 still has the default of 30 hops.

The right answer is almost certainly for traceroute to use syctl(3) to
find out what the kernel's default TTL is, and then use that.

-GAWollman


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