Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 06:35:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 06:35:48 -0400 Received: from 24-25-197-107.san.rr.com ([24.25.197.107]:34813 "HELO sink.san.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 06:35:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 03:35:41 -0700 From: acmay@acmay.homeip.net To: "David S. Miller" Cc: George Bonser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux default IP ttl Message-ID: <20010715033541.B5369@sink.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <15185.27251.356109.500135@pizda.ninka.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15185.27251.356109.500135@pizda.ninka.net>; from davem@redhat.com on Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:03:31AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:03:31AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > 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. I seem to recall seeing an NT box setup as a router and it decided to decrement the TTL by 128 every time instead of 1. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/