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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 18:14:27 +0200
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: George Bonser <george@gator.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux default IP ttl
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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.

While I haven't meassure I'd almost be willing to bet my right arm that
you'll find something like that in the AMPR.org packet radio network
which has at least one /8 network so is a considerable part of the
internet's IP space.

  Ralf
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