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What does the TTL field of an IP packet header do?

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Question added by Faseeh Mohd koya , IT SUPPORT ENGINEER [L2] , Ministry of Sports and Youth
Date Posted: 2016/04/17
Forqan Hossain Rubel
by Forqan Hossain Rubel , Assistance Engineer , Innovative Online Ltd

In IP networking TTL is used to indicate how long a packet should be in the network. It's useful in case the packet is undeliverable (due to some reason). The name is confusing because, in modern implementations, it's always a hop count. Each forwarding router must decrease TTL by 1. When a router sees that the TTL for an incoming packet is 0, it is discarded

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 It gives the time period upto which the packet can stay and roam around in the network.

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