On Friday 27 February 2004 19:17, Cedric Blancher wrote: > Le ven 27/02/2004 à 19:41, Alexis a écrit : > > in traceroute ttl=1 is only for the first packet (thats what i said > > about the first step) > > Yep, but... > The router which has raised the TTL exceeded error always receive the > packet with TTL=1. So, when you get an ICMP TTL exceeded, the TTL in > the citation is always 1 (well, should be). Unless the router is decrementing the TTL field by more than 1 for each packet. For example, if it decrements by 5 and it receives any packet with a TTL <= 4, it will raise TTL exceeded. I believe this is possible, but most likely not common. David
