Solved Time to live exceeded

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Following a reboot my server/internet gateway gives me this error msg.

What does mean?

My server has a USB tether from my phone and dhclient assigns an IP address to the ue0 port, but trying to ping 8.8.8.8 gives me this msg.

Is there anything I should check?
 
TTL is roughly the number of "hops" the packet is allowed to take.
man ping and search for ttl
sysctl net.inet.ip.ttl is the default value for IPV4, seems to be 64.
see what happens if you do "ping -m 128 8.8.8.8" basically double the number.

I've rarely seen a need for ttl above the default, but sometimes it's needed.
 
dhclient -r <interface> to release the current lease then
chclient <interface> to get a new lease

But as others have said do a traceroute
 
I guess the man page was for a different system than freebsd.
Regardless, if your link is up then the the problem is probably not dhcp lease see what traceroute says
 
Alain De Vos said:
If it's ip related do a regular ping or wget to keep alive.
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It's probably not a keep alive; based on the OP, after booting, the ping "times out" with a ttl error. That means the packet was going over more than 64 hops to reach 8.8.8.8 Basically going through 64 routers (or as covacat suggests, a loop is happening somewhere)
 
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