Re: TTL

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
7 Jul 1998 10:31:55 GMT

Followup to: <m0ytSUm-000aOuC@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > Anyways, I notice that all the systems here, Sun, Alpha, SGI, windoze,
> > etc., use a TTL of 255 for TCP. Linux uses 64. Is there a specification?
>
> "Assigned Numbers" gives the currently recommended TTL
>

In Linux, of course, it is a sysctl as it should be :)

-hpa

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