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Re: IP over SONET considered harmful?
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson () cisco com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 09:14:37 -0500
At 05:34 AM 3/21/98 -0800, Sean M. Doran wrote:
| Not decrementing the IP TTL at each LSR hop no more breaks the | IP TTL mechanisms than does frame-relay or ATM. If this is the goal why not have a knob to generate an "appropriate" ICMP message when IP TTL is exceeded, where appropriate may mean "not relating to the MPLS infrastructure" or "none at all"?
Sounds reasonable to me. My point was that decrementing the IP TTL, whether it be at each LSR or only at egress, should be a decision that can be made by the provider. - paul
Current thread:
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful?, (continued)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Scott Brim (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? John G. Scudder (Mar 23)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Paul E. Erkkila (Mar 23)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? avg (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Martin Hannigan (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Paul Ferguson (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Vadim Antonov (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Stan Hanks (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Martin Hannigan (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Vadim Antonov (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Paul Ferguson (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 22)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 22)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Vadim Antonov (Mar 22)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 22)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Mike Trest (In Japan) (Mar 22)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Peter E. Giza (Mar 23)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 24)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Peter Lothberg (Mar 27)