On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Thomas Narten <nar...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > The default value for hosts is the Neighbor Discovery > > advertised hop limit [ND-Spec]. The default value for > > routers is the default IPv6 Hop Limit value from the > > Assigned Numbers RFC (64 at the time of writing this > > document). > > The intention of that wording was that the value to be used was the > same one as recommended for general use for IPv4, which IANA records. What about nodes that are e.g. statically configured? > > IP TIME TO LIVE PARAMETER > > > > The current recommended default time to live (TTL) for the Internet > > Protocol (IP) is 64 [RFC791, RFC1122]. > > Obviously, this could be a bit clearer. IANA should have a similar > entry for Hop Limit, which might well just point to the IPv4 TTL > value. Yes, I believe the ipv6-parameters file should specify what the default value for the Hop Limit is. Any hint on how to get this done? Thanks! Kind regards, Fernando -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
