Hops are artificial, as long as you are 100% sure you’re not introducing loops you can just tell routers not to decrease the TTL and they’ll be invisible. It’s

Hops are artificial, as long as you are 100% sure you’re not introducing loops you can just tell routers not to decrease the TTL and they’ll be invisible. It’s just that if you do that and you do introduce a loop the packets will keep looping and the network will very quickly overflow.