One of the students at the Advanced Networking course constantly questioned us about the fate of IP packets, which do not reach the destination for their issued TTL (time to live). On the last day he was explained that each of the paects has its own karma, and that it depends heavily on the information contained in it. Thus e. Packages with good information in their next life will become TCP packets (a level higher than IP by the 7-level OSI model), and packages with bad information will become Level 2 packets (e.g. Ethernet or Token Ring). The student left enlightened.