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what's the meaning of TTL=64?

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Mar 15, 202658854 views
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If I'm sniffing my computer and see some packet with TTL=64, does it means that the packet came from a computer inside my network, or it can be anyone in the WWW ? I know what TTL is. But I'm trying to figure out what exactly TTL=64 means.

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TTL is Time To Live. Each hop decrements this field by one, and if the value reaches 0, the packet is dropped (usually this happens only in loop situations). This makes sure that data packets are not congesting a network if there is an IP routing lo…

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