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Glossary: Networking Basics

TTL

Also written: time to live, ttl=64, ttl=63

Time to live: a hop counter in every IP packet. The sender usually starts it at 64, and each router lowers it by 1, dropping the packet at 0, so a reply showing ttl=63 crossed one router.

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hoptraceroutetime exceeded