At 10:08 AM +0530 11/28/01, Jagan wrote: >The Hop limit in IPv6 hdr is decrimented by every intermediate node in >the journey of the packet. Does it mean the packet can only tranverse >through 256 intermediate nodes ( 2^8 )?
Yes, it is limited to 255 IP hops (where a single IP hop may span multiple layer 2 switches, or even multiple IP routers if there are IP-in-IP tunnels along the delivery path). Steve -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
