[ On Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 22:11:45 (-0400), Andrew Brown wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: traceroute max ttl uplift
>
> i think it makes little difference, unless you were to lower the
> default ttl for ping to lower than that of the system in general.

on the contrary...

I think the point is that all the tools that set the TTLs in "raw"
packets they generated, and all packets originated by the system itself,
should always all use the same _default_ TTL, i.e. sysctl net.inet.ip.ttl

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