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TTL (Time to Live) is reduced by 1 every time a router forwards the packet. The purpose of this is to reduce the negative effects of routing loops. If two routers are misconfigured (it happens) and send a packet back and forth to each other assuming the other router will take care of it, the packet would simply never go away, if it wasn't for TTL. It guarantees that this can only happen a maximum of 256 times (generally quite a bit less). Once that TTL reaches zero, the packet is discarded.

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