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Asked: 2026-05-18T05:47:26+00:00

I am using a Java application to send UDP packets to an Android device.

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I am using a Java application to send UDP packets to an Android device. There I have another Java application that receives these UDP packets and displays its data – very simple.

Now I am working on some routing algorithms – therefore it would be nice to know how many hops a UDP packet did since it was send. My idea is to just read out the TTL (time-to-live) value of the packet and display it. Do you know if this is possible with pure Java? The class DatagramPacket doesn’t give any hints at all.

I guess that this is not possible because this information might already have been removed at a lower layer, but I just want to be sure. 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    The TTL field is, as you know, a feature of the underlying IP protocol (when used), not of UDP. So it makes sense for it not to be visible in the DatagramPacket API. However, I think you’re right; it’s not normally possible to get access to the IP packets through datagram-level API:s. You probably need to look into packet capture.

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