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Re: IP over SONET considered harmful?

From: Havard.Eidnes () runit sintef no
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 18:51:10 +0100

  I consider Windows 95 to be the least common denominator,
  which has a default IP TTL of 32.  Yes, 32.  So that implies
  that each NSP should decrement no less than 8 TTLs.


That's broken. I quote from RFC 1340, dated July 1992:

   The current recommended default time to live (TTL) for the Internet
   Protocol (IP) [45,105] is 64.

This does not change reality, of course, but it also does not
make it less broken.

- Håvard

Current thread:

IP over SONET considered harmful? Alan Hannan (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Havard . Eidnes (Mar 20)
  - Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Alan Hannan (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Yakov Rekhter (Mar 20)
  - Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Joseph Malcolm (Mar 20)
  - Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Paul Ferguson (Mar 20)
    - Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Naiming Shen (Mar 23)
  - Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Paul E. Erkkila (Mar 20)
    - Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Joseph Malcolm (Mar 20)
- RE: IP over SONET considered harmful? Bill St. Arnaud (Mar 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Kent W. England (Mar 20)

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