What is the purpose of the TTL field in the IP header?

IT Questions BankCategory: CCNA 2 v4What is the purpose of the TTL field in the IP header?

What is the purpose of the TTL field in the IP header?

  • used to mark routes as unreachable in updates sent to other routers
  • prevents regular update messages from reinstating a route that may have gone bad
  • prevents a router from advertising a network through the interface from which the update came
  • limits the time or hops that a packet can traverse through the network before it should be discarded
  • defines a maximum metric value for each distance vector routing protocol by setting a maximum hop count

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