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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 03:03:31 -0700 (PDT)
To: "George Bonser" <george@gator.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux default IP ttl
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George Bonser writes:
 > This has reduced considerably the number of ICMP messages where a packet has
 > expired
 > in transit from my server farms. Looks like there are a lot of clients out
 > there running
 > (apparently) modern Microsoft OS versions with networks having a lot of hops
 > (more than 64).

Why are there 64 friggin hops between machine in your server farm?
That is what I want to know.  It makes no sense, even over today's
internet, to have more than 64 hops between two sites.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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