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4.2.2.19 Time to Live: RFC-793 Section 3.9, page 52

RFC-793 specified that TCP was to request the IP layer to send TCP segments with TTL = 60. This is obsolete; the TTL value used to send TCP segments MUST be configurable. See Section 3.2.1.7 for discussion.

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