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From: Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi>
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Subject: why TTL set to 64?
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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


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