Subject: Re: [IPV4] Always set hoplimit

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:05:33 -0800

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:08:27 +1100
Herbert Xu <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:59:09PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > Did you run into an actual problem that led you to this issue?  If
> > so, what was it?  Or was this just determined by pure code review?
> 
> Someone reported this problem to me after a picky firewall complained
> about getting broadcast packets with ttl == 0.

Ok, that doubly-justifies the fix.

Thanks again Herbert.