Re: Recommended value for the Hop Limit?

[Fernando Gont <fernando at gont.com.ar>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Thomas Narten <narten at 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