From: bobdu11@cox.net
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 20:43:59 GMT-3
> Set it to 255, what can it hurt ?.....
> From: "Scott Livingston" <scottl@sprinthosting.net>
> Date: 2002/12/17 Tue PM 05:41:31 EST
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Subject: RE: EBGP Multihop - How many hops?
>
> Ok, where are my multihop guru's?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Scott Livingston
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:10 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: EBGP Multihop - How many hops?
>
> So what is best practice? What I typically do for my EBGP multihop
> customers is set the ttl to 10 if its only 3 or 4 hops; that away if the
> primary link dies they don't get black-holed if the redundant route
> takes them 5 or 6 hops away from the peer.
>
> In your opinion how should I set this up in the "real world" vs the lab?
> If in the lab I am asked to setup multihop, but they don't tell me how
> many hops to set the ttl should I set it to 255 or should I set it to
> just a little over the NEEDED ttl.
>
> Thank You,
> Scott
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