APPLICATION LAYER
PEER TO PEER PARADIGM
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Question
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What does the time-to-live (TTL) parameter that Gnutella assigns to each search message indicate?
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The validity time of the message
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The number of neighboring nodes to which the message will be forwarded
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The maximum number of nodes that can receive the message
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The maximum number of times the message can be forwarded
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -TTL. Time To Live. The number of times the descriptor will be forwarded by. Gnutella servents before it is removed from the network. Each servent will decrement the TTL before passing it on to another servent.
Detailed explanation-2: -The maximum TTL value is 255, the maximum value of a single octet. A recommended initial value is 64. The time-to-live value can be thought of as an upper bound on the time that an IP datagram can exist in an Internet system.
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