Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "George Bonser" <> | | Subject | RE: [PATCH] Linux default IP ttl | | Date | Sun, 15 Jul 2001 04:11:33 -0700 |
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While it is still the wee hours ... 4am here ... the change in TTL has resulted in a 10% increase in bandwidth to my server farms so far. It appears to be a substantial improvement.
> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org > [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of David S. Miller > Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 3:04 AM > To: George Bonser > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux default IP ttl > > > > George Bonser writes: > > This has reduced considerably the number of ICMP messages > where a packet has > > expired > > in transit from my server farms. Looks like there are a lot of > clients out > > there running > > (apparently) modern Microsoft OS versions with networks having > a lot of hops > > (more than 64). > > Why are there 64 friggin hops between machine in your server farm? > That is what I want to know. It makes no sense, even over today's > internet, to have more than 64 hops between two sites. > > Later, > David S. Miller > davem@redhat.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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