Re: [PATCH] Linux default IP ttl

[David S. Miller]

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
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