[Csci551-talk] TTL handling : Just FYI

[Devarshi Shah]

Hi people,

 

This is just FYI... thought I'd share it.

One thing that the project does not mention is how and if the TTL field is
to be handled. I had a talk with Dr. Heidemann and he said that we do need
to consider the TTL field and decrement TTL every hop  - and stop
propagating the packets if the TTL goes to 0. The TTL field can be
initialized to an arbitrary initial value - he (Dr. Heidemann) suggested 10.

 

--devarshi

 

Devarshi P. Shah

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University of Southern California, LA.

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