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Below I am pasting the ping report. My question is what is that TTL. First it shows TTL = 55 then secondly it shows TTL = 246. Is it good to have TTL 55 or 246
1st - C:>ping 201.137.96.2
Pinging 201.137.96.2 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 201.137.96.2: bytes=32 time=118ms TTL=55
Reply from 201.137.96.2: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=55
Reply from 201.137.96.2: bytes=32 time=81ms TTL=55
Reply from 201.137.96.2: bytes=32 time=96ms TTL=55
Ping statistics for 201.137.96.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 81ms, Maximum = 118ms, Average = 96ms
2nd - C:>ping 201.137.96.2
Pinging 201.137.96.2 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 201.137.96.2: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=246
Reply from 201.137.96.2: bytes=32 time=91ms TTL=246
Reply from 201.137.96.2: bytes=32 time=76ms TTL=246
Reply from 201.137.96.2: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=246
Ping statistics for 201.137.96.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 76ms, Maximum = 110ms, Average = 94ms
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sorry Brian, can you please explain why I am getting this difference
Reply from 201.137.96.2: bytes=32 time=118ms TTL=55
Reply from 201.137.96.2: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=246
time= 118ms TTL=55
time =110ms TTL=246
what is this time and why its TTL value sometimes 55 and 246
any help would be greatly appreciated****
TTL is like many said the "Time To Live." This is set by default on the destination device, and if not modified, allows you the ability to tell what type of device is responding. Check out this article for more information: http://www.binbert.com/blog/2009/12/default-time-to-live-ttl-values/
TTL means "time to live". It is a value on an ICMP packet that prevents that packet from propagating back and forth between hosts ad infinitum. Each router that touches the packet decrements the TTL. If the TTL ever reaches zero, the packet is discarded. It's also a measure of how many hops the packet took. If the TTL value started at, say, 128 and you see a value of 28, then there were 100 hops between the system where the packet originated and the final destination. My guess is that the initial TTL for the ping packets was 255, so the first ping traversal took 200 hops and the second took 9. The 200 seems a little high to me, but hop counts of 100 aren't uncommon.
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
