Re: How much detailed an OEQ Answer should be?

I'll answer:

TTL (Time to Live) IP Header field used in order to avoid that one IP packet
travel indefinetely around the network.

One short sentece, it gives the acronym, and the concept.

Rgds.

Omar Parihuana
CCIE R&S 25093

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On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:04 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
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> -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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