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From: phil@BRL.MIL (Phil Dykstra)
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Subject: Do Butterflies Live Forever?
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Date: 14 Mar 89 07:36:51 GMT
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If you run traceroute through the Buttergates in the core, you will
notice that they do not decrement the IP TTL.  This is not a very
good idea.  We would be in deep trouble if a routing loop was ever
set up between them (not that this would ever happen of course :-).

- Phil