Patent ID: 8761205

Claim:
A method for transmitting a data packet in a network, wherein the data packet has a header field containing header data relevant to transmission and a user field, wherein at least one data field containing header data of a first header data type is provided in the header field, said data field being designed as a TTL field (Time-to-Live field) and wherein the data packet is transmitted from a transmitter device to a receiver device, is hereby characterized in that in the at least one TTL field, in addition to the header data of the first header data type, header data of at least one second header data type are transmitted, in that the TTL field has a number of bits, in that header data of the first header data type are or will be included in a first sub-number of bits and in that header data of the at least one second header data type are or will be included in at least one second sub-number of bits.