- <code>value</code>: Maximum flood hop count (0-64) for a packet without a scope (no region set)</p>
<p><strong>Default:</strong><code>0xFF</code>- indicates it hasn't been set, will track flood.max until it is.</p>
<p><strong>Default:</strong><code>64</code> - (<code>0xFF</code> indicates it hasn't been set, will track flood.max until it is.)</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> An alternative to <code>region denyf *</code>, setting <code>flood.max.unscoped</code> to a lower value such as <code>3</code> would allow for local unscoped messages to propagate, while preventing noisy neighbors from flooding a local region.</p>
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<h4id="limit-the-number-of-hops-for-an-advert-flood-message">Limit the number of hops for an advert flood message</h4>