Re: How much detailed an OEQ Answer should be?

My personal recommendation is to answer enough to where you have explained
the technology and have communicated that you know what you are talking
about. In this case, I would probably right a short sentence or two about
the TTL not just what the acronym stands for. Could you write just what the
acronym stands for and still get credit? I don't know, so I'd be safe and
communicate that not only do I know what it stands for, but I know what it
actually does.

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:04 PM, CCIE League <ccieleague_at_ymail.com> wrote:

> Experts,
>
>
> Where to end the answer of the "open ended" Qs...
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>
> e.g If the question is : What is TTL?
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> Should we say:
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> - It's Time To Live.... Full stop & move to next question??
>
> or say
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> -The Time to Live (TTL) field prevents "lost" packets from being passed
> endlessly through the IP network.
>
> or add
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> -The field contains an 8-bit integer that is set by the originator of the
> packet. Each router through which the packet passes will decrement the
> integer by one.
>
> or also add
>
> -If a router decrements the TTL to zero, it will discard the packet and
> send an ICMP "time exceeded" error message to the packet's source address.
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>
>
> Could someone shed some light on this?
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> Ta,
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