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From: casey@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
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Subject: Re: Small TTL values evaporate in large networks
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Date: 2 Jun 89 05:04:32 GMT
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  Just as a note, it turns out the Stellar's Stellix version 1.6 also has
this problem.  It sets the TTL field to 10 for ICMP and TCP packets.  I'll
attempt to get a patched kernel and will report on a fix when it's
available.

Casey