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Comment by Sumsid
Submitted on 11/16/2005
Related RFC: RFC 792
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Hi,I just want a clarification,The RFC states this on page-5 and 6 " Description If the gateway processing a datagram finds the time to live is zero it must discard the datagram. The gateway may also notify the source host via the time exceeded message."I think even if a gateway receives a fragment/packet with ttl 1 it will discard the packet and issue an ICMP error with code 0 amd type 11 , so in the RFC where it says the condition for the ttl to be zero shouldnt it be replaced by less than/equal to 1.Kindly clarify,Sumit