Re: TTL patch buggy?

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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


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