From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: George Bonser <george@gator.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux default IP ttl
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 18:14:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010716181426.A1993@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CHEKKPICCNOGICGMDODJIEEIDKAA.george@gator.com> <15185.27251.356109.500135@pizda.ninka.net>
In-Reply-To: <15185.27251.356109.500135@pizda.ninka.net>; from davem@redhat.com on Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:03:31AM -0700
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:03:31AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> George Bonser writes:
> > This has reduced considerably the number of ICMP messages where a packet has
> > expired
> > in transit from my server farms. Looks like there are a lot of clients out
> > there running
> > (apparently) modern Microsoft OS versions with networks having a lot of hops
> > (more than 64).
>
> Why are there 64 friggin hops between machine in your server farm?
> That is what I want to know. It makes no sense, even over today's
> internet, to have more than 64 hops between two sites.
While I haven't meassure I'd almost be willing to bet my right arm that
you'll find something like that in the AMPR.org packet radio network
which has at least one /8 network so is a considerable part of the
internet's IP space.
Ralf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-17 1:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-15 8:58 George Bonser
2001-07-15 10:03 ` David S. Miller
2001-07-15 10:15 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2001-07-15 10:34 ` George Bonser
2001-07-15 10:17 ` George Bonser
2001-07-15 10:35 ` acmay
2001-07-15 11:11 ` George Bonser
2001-07-15 11:11 ` David S. Miller
2001-07-15 11:17 ` David S. Miller
2001-07-15 11:28 ` George Bonser
2001-07-15 11:30 ` David S. Miller
2001-07-15 11:42 ` George Bonser
2001-07-15 18:24 ` Steve VanDevender
2001-07-15 19:28 ` Lew Wolfgang
2001-07-15 19:51 ` George Bonser
2001-07-15 19:40 ` George Bonser
2001-07-15 20:10 ` George Bonser
2001-07-15 11:31 ` David S. Miller
2001-07-15 11:32 ` George Bonser
2001-07-15 11:20 ` George Bonser
2001-07-16 16:14 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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