On (02/26/09 19:49), Peter Memishian wrote: > > header template for all tcp packets on a conn. All the ulp ttls seem to > > follow a similar pattern. And all of them can be over-ridden by the > > IP_TTL sockopt. > > I don't know why there are so many of these knobs; I suspect the source > revision history will tell some interesting stories :-)
I don't know.. smells like a huge copy/paste project here :-) > Probably, though there is utility in having the unicast, multicast, and > broadcast tunables remain separate. It's also not clear what all this means for ipv6, where the rfc's have their own constraints on, e.g., link-local hop limit. --Sowmini
