Unless someone has an iptables module that mangles the TTL count in a "non-standard" manner...
This may help... http://www.dot-biz.com/IPv4/Tutorial/ The Netfilter Project: Packet Mangling for Linux 2.4 http://netfilter.samba.org Jim Fleming http://www.IPv8.info IPv16....One Better !! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Deering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 2:34 AM Subject: Re: Hop Limit in IPv6 Hdr. > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
