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The TTL (time to live) field is decremented at every hop in the network in order to avoid that a packet can accidentally loop in the network. This TTL field is part of the TCP header.

  1. True

  2. False
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B Correct answer
Explanation

TTL is an IP header field used to prevent packets from looping indefinitely by decrementing at each router. It is NOT part of TCP - TCP operates at the transport layer while TTL is a network-layer mechanism.

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