[15743] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP over SONET considered harmful?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Fri Mar 20 13:05:50 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 09:55:01 -0800
From: Alan Hannan <alan@globalcenter.net>
To: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: Alan Hannan <alan@globalcenter.net>
In-Reply-To: <199803201751.SAA28323@vader.runit.sintef.no>; from Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no on Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 06:51:10PM +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.
Well, perhaps, but my wording certainly is; of course I mean 'no
more than 8 TTLs'.
> 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.
Arguable; not following a recommendation is not broken. It's just
dumb.
I'd like to see IETF make 64 a requirement or standard. But of
course that is painful.
-a
