Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!lwa@mit-mrclean From: lwa@mit-mrclean (Larry Allen) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Time to live values for IP networks. Message-ID: <8810@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 10:33:57 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8810 Posted: Fri Mar 1 10:33:57 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:02:17 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 5 In my opinion TTL should always be set to the maximum value. It's only real purpose is to prevent packets from looping when the gateways are confused about routing (eg. when a gateway has gone down and the other gateways are in the process of changing their routing information). -Larry Allen