NETWORK LAYER
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Question
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What is the field in the IPv4 packet header that tells a L3 device ( router ) when a packet should be dropped?
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hop limit
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Time to live
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Round trip time
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type field
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -ANS.-2) Differentiated Services or DiffServ is a header field used by routers to decide the path of the packets traversal and also decremented in each step, hence this is the correct option.
Detailed explanation-2: -IPv4 Addressing. IPv4 addresses are 32-bit numbers represented as strings of 0s and 1s. As mentioned before, the Layer 3 header contains a Source IP Address field and a Destination IP Address field.
Detailed explanation-3: -To avoid l-3 loop we have TTL in IP header.
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