Am 25.10.2015 um 13:47 schrieb Todd C. Miller:
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 18:15:48 +0200, Sebastian Benoit wrote:
>
>>> s/size/diameter/ to quote RFC 2461 correctly
>>>
>>> The value should be set to that current diameter of the Internet.
>>
>> who measures that and tells me what to set there?
>
> Every sys/netinet hacker should own a set of internet calipers.
>
> - todd
>
And your calipers should be calibrated by the bureau of standards and 64
hops your calipers shall read:
Quote:
IP TIME TO LIVE PARAMETER
Note
The current recommended default time to live (TTL) for the Internet
Protocol (IP) is 64 [RFC791], [RFC1122].
End Quote.
Source:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ip-parameters/ip-parameters.xhtml
Cheers,
rru42
