Default TTL (Time To Live) Values of Different OS

1 · Subin Siby · April 14, 2014, 2:48 p.m.
TTL (Time To Live) is a timer value included in packets sent over networks that tells the recipient how long to hold or use the packet before discarding and expiring the data (packet). TTL values are different for different Operating Systems. So, you can determine the OS based on the TTL value. You can get the TTL value by pinging an address. Here is the output got by pinging "subinsb.com" on my system :...