On Apr 21, 2004, at 4:14 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > What side effects if any are there? Why is the default 64 and not > some other number like 255... The default TTL gets decremented with every hop, which means that a packet coming in with a TTL of 255 had to be sent by a directly connected system. [ip_ttl is an octet, so it can't hold a larger TTL value.] A packet with a TTL of 64 could have been many hops away. -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"