Re: TTL Uses ???

Steve Deering <deering@parc.xerox.com> Fri, 14 January 1994 21:52 UTC

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To: Matt Crawford <crawdad@munin.fnal.gov>
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Subject: Re: TTL Uses ???
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From: Steve Deering <deering@parc.xerox.com>
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> But ... but ... if you could solve three different problems by
> *introducing* one little byte, wouldn't you call that a beautiful,
> rather than an ugly hack?

Matt,

I should have been clearer.  What I consider ugly is the use of TTL
thresholds in boundary mrouters in order to approximate administrative
scope control.  On the other hand, I consider the use of small TTLs for
expanding-ring multicast searches to be entirely compatible with the
hop-limiting function of the TTL field, and rather elegant.

Steve