Andreas Ericsson wrote: > No, that's the TTL in the response packet, which will be "defult TTL of > host sending ICMP_ECHOREPLY" minus "hops between pinged host and self". > The TTL on the outgoing packets are, by default, 64 on *BSD and Linux, > 128 on Windows and HP switches/routers, 255 on Cisco and 3Com stuff... > > 64 is usually as high a TTL as one can stomach for most practical > reasons (I reach Australia with 36 hops from Sweden). > > On Linux, the default TTL can be accessed through > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_default_ttl > Ah great, thanks for the info :)
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