Under what situations a packet can go into infinite loop in a network ?

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vaisnave

  • May 22nd, 2006
 

if there are more than one way for reaching a particular router from the same source router.

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swathee

  • May 29th, 2006
 

count to infinity problem

or may due to the condition like (in RIP)if it exceeds 16 hops..

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zz

  • Jul 30th, 2006
 

if the following two conditions are simultaneously true:1. routing error leading to a loop2. the TTL field of the IP packet is not properly decremented at each hop

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