> Most systems have 64 as default TTL, otherwise you're right. There are two > "variants" of "Time to live exceeded". One is where the there are more hops > to the target than the TTL set in the packet. This is known as "Time to live > exceeded in transit". >
Hmmm something rang a bell when you've said 64, however I've just got a completely different answer to both of our theories! On Windows, the TTL is set to 127, on my FreeBSD 6.1 box it's set to 246, and on Fedora 5 it's 243. The TTL displayed in the ping output, is this the same TTL as what we're both referring to? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
