Your new boss has asked you to recommend the default initial

Your new boss has asked you to recommend the default initial TTL setting for your network. Conduct a series of experiments to determine what that value should be. Summarize your data and give your recommendation

Solution

ttl is an 8 bit field

for traceroute ttl starts at 0 but is incremented by the sending router until it eventually reaches the destination or a maximum of 255 hops

for ping ttl is 255 which is decremented by 1 for every hop

but it never gets to 0 as there is a default timer on ping of 2 seconds on cisco routers...and it would most probably time out (2 seconds) before it actually got sent to 255 devices.

a normal ip packet has a ttl of 255