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What is the term for the packet counter that tells a router when to drop a packet in ipv6?
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time to live
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round trip time
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hop limit
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hop count
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Use the IPv6 default unicast hop limit, 255.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hop Limit The Hop Limit field indicates the maximum number of links over which the IPv6 packet can travel before being discarded. The size of this field is 8 bits.
Detailed explanation-3: -An IPv6 packet has three parts: an IPv6 basic header, one or more IPv6 extension headers, and an upper-layer protocol data unit (PDU). An upper-layer PDU is composed of the upper-layer protocol header and its payload, which maybe an ICMPv6 packet, a TCP packet, or a UDP packet.
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