You can't have more than 4 hops (hubs) between your workstation and your firewall.
What you can do is replace 1 or more hubs with switches. The reason is that every hub
your packets go through strips off a bit from the header, and after 4 there isnt
enough left to make the entire trip. (in a nutshell, anyway). Switches do not strip
this Bit from the header and thus don't limit you to the 3-4-3 rule.
Or, your Firewall or mail server may be hozed..but thats another issue entirely.
cheers..
>>> Syed Qamar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/12/00 10:32AM >>>
Hi,
I am trying to send mail through firewall but getting following message:
<<returned mail: too many hops 18(17 max): from <> SIZE=5889 via localhost,
to firewall.
the number of these messages are increasing every day. Does any one have any
clue about this error message. I am not very strong in routers and will
appreciate any input on this error.
thanks
syed
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