At 08:33 PM 3/9/00 +0100, Paul van Empelen wrote: >Ping will show you the TTL of the returning icmp packet. I can't tell you >exactly what the TTL does on the iron where the ping packet will bounce.
So each host implements it's own time-to-live for it's ICMP packets? I take it that's the maximum time a host will wait to here a ping echo? Possibly a way to keep hosts from waiting ad infinitum for echos and thereby hogging up stack space. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | -=I T ' S P R I N C I P L E T H A T C O U N T S=- | |=- -=ALAN KEYES FOR PRESIDENT=- -=| | Balanced Budgets Personal Freedoms Morality Lower Tax | |=-- http://www.Keyes2000.com. --=| +�������������������������������������������������������������������+
