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From: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Time-to-live boundary conditions
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Date: Wed, 20-Aug-86 01:04:00 EDT
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If a gateway receives an IP segment whose time-to-live field has a
value of 1 (one), should it transmit the segment after decrementing the
TTL field to 0?  RFC 791 (Internet Protocol) is not clear on this.

                       :: Jeff Makey
                          Makey@LOGICON.ARPA