From: Brian McGahan (bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Thu Jun 23 2005 - 14:26:09 GMT-3
This would not have any effect. The problem he is seeing is
that the TTL is expiring, not that it is administratively scoped. AFAIK
there's no way on the router to edit the TTL of a packet. Looks like
you're either going to have to bridge it or have them increase the TTL.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
> Montiean
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:46 PM
> To: Sheahan, John; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Changing a multicast packets TTL
>
> Hi,
> Rather than decresing ttl at the source, you might need to lower ttl
> under
> each interface on each hop. But this might come up with another
problem
> especially at the border router.
>
> r6(config-if)#ip multicast ttl-threshold ?
> <0-255> TTL threshold
>
> By default, it has set to 0. So it suppose to pass all the multicast
> packet.
> Check link below for detail.
>
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/105/mcastguide0.html#ttlsetting
>
> HTH,
> Montiean
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sheahan, John" <John.Sheahan@priceline.com>
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 8:44 AM
> Subject: Changing a multicast packets TTL
>
>
> > I have a multicast application that I am trying to route that has a
TTL
> > of 1 in every packet and will not route due to this fact.
> >
> > I have asked the application guys to see if there is a way of
changing
> > that but haven't gotten an answer yet.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to get this to work besides bridging?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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