Re: [PATCH] Linux default IP ttl

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Sun, 15 Jul 2001 03:03:31 -0700 (PDT)


George Bonser writes:
> This has reduced considerably the number of ICMP messages where a packet has
> expired
> in transit from my server farms. Looks like there are a lot of clients out
> there running
> (apparently) modern Microsoft OS versions with networks having a lot of hops
> (more than 64).

Why are there 64 friggin hops between machine in your server farm?
That is what I want to know. It makes no sense, even over today's
internet, to have more than 64 hops between two sites.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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