[15742] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP over SONET considered harmful?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no)
Fri Mar 20 13:03:04 1998
To: alan@globalcenter.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Mar 1998 23:26:25 -0800"
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 18:51:10 +0100
> I consider Windows 95 to be the least common denominator,
> which has a default IP TTL of 32. Yes, 32. So that implies
> that each NSP should decrement no less than 8 TTLs.
That's broken. I quote from RFC 1340, dated July 1992:
The current recommended default time to live (TTL) for the Internet
Protocol (IP) [45,105] is 64.
This does not change reality, of course, but it also does not
make it less broken.
- Håvard
