On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:14:06PM -0800, Jimi Thompson wrote: > > > This is an issue that we recently ran into at work and I wanted to mention > this since 5.0 isn't released yet. I don't know if FreeBSD has addressed > this or not but thought it should be mentioned just in case. We've > discovered that in many *nix OS's the TCP stack sets the default TTL for > packets to 30. Apparently, IBM (AIX) had not and our research showed that > most of the other *nix OS's hadn't either. > > With the increasing complexity of the internet, this is often a problem for > those who have large internal networks and/or live in Australia. 30 hops > often isn't enough to make to the core DNS. It probably ought to be > extended to something more realistic. The other numbers that I've seen used > 64, 128, and 256. >
troutmask:sgk[202] sysctl -a | grep -i ttl net.inet.ip.ttl: 64 -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
