TTL

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:58:16 -0400 (EDT)

I have been doing some network snooping to find out how to keep
the damn switch I'm now connected to, from turning me off after
15 minutes of no network activity. FYI the temporary fix is to
ping the cisco router once every 10 minutes...

Anyways, I notice that all the systems here, Sun, Alpha, SGI, windoze,
etc., use a TTL of 255 for TCP. Linux uses 64. Is there a specification?
Or, is it presumed that there can't be more than 64 hops in the known
universe? Just want to know.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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