Yes, RFC 1812 is where this is discussed. IIRC, the author notes that all of the router manufacturers complained that trying to use time rather than hops was impractical if not impossible from their perspective.
Chuck ""Howard C. Berkowitz"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > >AFAIK, the TTL gets decremented by one by a router as it passes it on (if > >it's held under one second), or by the number of seconds it was held if it > >is held over one second. I agree that anything more than 1000ms of delay > >seems outrageous for a single hop these days, but I don't know of anything > >that has changed that "rule" that both you and I describe. > > > >Mike W. > > This is off the top of my head, but I think the changing of the rule > to decrementing the hop count is in RFC 1812. TTL for fragment > reassembly is a little different. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=35610&t=35507 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
