GRE隧道TTL号码

这是服务器A上的设置:

iface serverA_gre0 inet tunnel address 172.24.0.85 mode gre endpoint xxxx dstaddr 172.24.0.86 netmask 255.255.255.252 ttl 255 

在服务器B上设置:

 iface serverB_gre0 inet tunnel address 172.24.0.86 mode gre endpoint xxxx dstaddr 172.24.0.85 netmask 255.255.255.252 ttl 255 

没有“ttl 255”:

 traceroute to 172.24.0.86 (172.24.0.86), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 * * * 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 * * * 6 172.24.0.86 54.507 ms 62.888 ms 51.369 ms 

用“ttl 255”:

 traceroute to 172.24.0.86 (172.24.0.86), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 172.24.0.86 51.123 ms 51.733 ms 51.943 ms 

当TTL 255不存在时究竟导致那些“*”问题究竟是什么?