--Wb5NtZlyOqqy58h0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 05:18:26PM -0400, Gary Corcoran wrote: > Charles Swiger wrote: > >The default TTL gets decremented with every hop, which means that a=20 > >packet coming in with a TTL of 255 had to be sent by a directly=20 > >connected system. [ip_ttl is an octet, so it can't hold a larger TTL=20 > >value.] >=20 > Huh? 255-- =3D=3D 254, not 0. A TTL of 255 just allows the maximum poss= ible > number of hops, before being declared hopelessly lost. Exactly -- if you see an incoming packet with a TTL of 255, it must've originated on a directly connected system /or it would've already been decremented to 254 or lower/. -T --=20 "Beware of he who would deny you information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." --Wb5NtZlyOqqy58h0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAhutNDwp/vIKK/HsRAoN3AJ0aKDv4X5/wMIdY77mS8vzUnpKD8wCdHc7c ulf/IN+izwlMLk5BxDiDw40= =qlpc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Wb5NtZlyOqqy58h0--