> > Hi All > > I am newbie with configuring networks under FreeBSD . I have > small network with gateway running on FreeBSD 5.2 Release .My > ISP offers me pppoe service for connecting to Internet . I > didn't have problems with configuring ppp with pppoe . I used > nat option wchich works fine for masquerading the local > network from the world . The problem is that the ISP's > gateway returns every time packets with ttl=1 which makes > further forwarding impossible . My gateway returns icmp error > mesage "time exceeded" and discards packets . I want to know > if I made some mistake with configuring nat service or if not > what is the solution of the problem ? Is there any service > that can increment ttl and process the packet ? I tried to > avoid the checking of ttl in the ip_forward() function in > ip_input.c and skipping the decrement of ttl and everything > works fine but i think that this is very ugly kernel hack . > Probably there is an easy and elegant solution . Any ideas ? >
TTL (Time To Live) is a counter value in an IP packet that gets decremented by every "hop" (router). When it reaches a value of zero, the packet is discarded. Using a TTL of 1 isn't going to be very useful as your packets will all be discarded at the first router. This is working as intended. Normally, TTL is set to 128-ish. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
