Hi Kings,

The TTL is decreased by 1 on every routed hop. If it is decreased on inside
interface that would mean the R3 sees 253. I think the R3 will see 254 -
assuming you're not using loopbacks.

Regards,
Piotr

2011/5/10 Kingsley Charles <[email protected]>

> Hi all
>
> When a router receives a packet, will the TTL be decremented on the ingress
> interface or egress interfaces while exiting? I am raising this question due
> to the following case.
>
>
> R1 ---------- R2 ------------- R3
>
>
>
> R1 and R3 are EBGP peers and we should configure hops as "2" with BGP ttl
> security as following:
>
> neighbor X.X.X.X ttl-security hops 2
>
> Here R2 is the only router in between which reduces the TTL. If hops is
> "2", the received TTL should be either 253 or above. Hence, it means the TTL
> is decremented on the ingress interface right?
>
> With regards
> Kings
>
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