Internet Dictionary - Definition of TTL


	Time To Live. A field in an IP packet header that indicates how long the packet is valid. The TTL value is decremented at each hop, and when the TTL equals 0, the packet no longer is considered valid, because it has exceeded its maximum hop count.

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