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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [IPV4] Always set hoplimit
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:05:33 -0800
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:08:27 +1100
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> 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.