At 11:41 PM 3/9/00 +0100, Paul van Empelen wrote: >Time to live has nothing to do with time, although the name suggests it. >It is a hop count. You start at e.g. 255. On the next hop the IP packet >will have a ttl of 254 and so on.
So it's really a max hops limit. How did it get a name like TTL?? What function does it serve? Besides providing a mechanism to expire lost packets... What role does each host's TTL setting play in a ping or trace? +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | -=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. --=| +�������������������������������������������������������������������+
