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what field in the ipv4 datagram header can be used to ensure that a packet is forwarded through no more than N headers
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what field in the ipv4 datagram header can be used to ensure that a packet is forwarded through no more than N headers

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Time to Live (or TTL)

Step-by-step explanation:

This counter field is initially set at some value that is decremented by one each time the packet "hops." When the counter reaches zero the packet is disposed of.

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