On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:35:47PM +0100, Harald Welte wrote: > The most dangerous cases of incrementing the TTL are: > > a) incrementing the TTL of transit traffic (not close to sender or receiver) > b) incrementing the TTL of multicast traffic Can you explain (b) a bit more, Harald? Multicast traffic is being dealt with by the routers in exactly the same way as the unicast traffic with regards to the TTL (as far as I understand it). Or did you mean by "multicast traffic", the IGMP messages? Appreciate the explanation. Ramin