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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Path: sparky!uunet!eco.twg.com!eco.twg.com!reece
- From: reece@eco.twg.com (Reece R. Pollack)
- Subject: Re: ATT 3B2 Hop Counter
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.154342.17716@eco.twg.com>
- Lines: 23
- Sender: reece@crash.eco.twg.com (Reece R. Pollack)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eco.twg.com
- Reply-To: reece@eco.twg.com (Reece R. Pollack)
- Organization: The Wollongong Group (East Coast Operations)
- References: <1992Jul27.161124.17031@wdl.loral.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 15:43:42 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Jul27.161124.17031@wdl.loral.com>, wrl@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Bill Lewandowski) writes:
- |>We have a user with a ATT 3B2 computer. We think we have a problem
- |>with data packets taking more than 16 hops through the NSFNET
- |>T3 network and the MILNET and the 3B2 is ignoring them because >16.
- |>
- |>Anyone know how I can increase the hops to a normal 32 or so.
- |>
- |>I don't have the computer here so I can't read any manuals so
- |>any help is really appreciated.
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- In the system IP configuration file '/etc/master.d/ip' there is a
- definition:
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- IP_TTL = 0xf
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- Change this to whatever hexadecimal value you deem neccesary and
- reboot using '/etc/system' to rebuild the kernel.
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- --
- Reece R. Pollack
- Senior Software Engineer
- The Wollongong Group, Inc.
-