> TTL (Time To Live) is a counter value in an IP packet that gets decremented > by every "hop" (router). When it reaches a value of zero, the packet is > discarded.
One more thing . If the packet is going to be forwarded and the TTL has value of 1 than the hop discards the packet . "A system should never receive IP datagram with TTL of 0 , but Net/3 generates the correct ICMP error if this happens since ip_ttl is examined after the packet is considered for local delivery and before it is forwarded" [TCP/IP Illustrated , Volume 2 - Gary R. Wright , W.Richard Stevens] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
