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I now what TTL is and how it works, but I can't figure out why it's different each time I do a ping.<br />
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For example, when I ping various servers on our network the TTL time can be either 127 for server A and 254 for server B.<br />
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Doing a tracert to server A, I get 2 hops, and same thing for server B. Not sure if that's relevant.
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I now what TTL is and how it works, but I can't figure out why it's different each time I do a ping.

For example, when I ping various servers on our network the TTL time can be either 127 for server A and 254 for server B.

Doing a tracert to server A, I get 2 hops, and same thing for server B. Not sure if that's relevant.

Ping: Why is TTL different each time?

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