diff --git a/src/ccnl-core/src/ccnl-interest.c b/src/ccnl-core/src/ccnl-interest.c
index 67d4b116..a17cf500 100644
--- a/src/ccnl-core/src/ccnl-interest.c
+++ b/src/ccnl-core/src/ccnl-interest.c
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ ccnl_interest_new(struct ccnl_relay_s *ccnl, struct ccnl_face_s *from,
     i->from = from;
     i->last_used = CCNL_NOW();
 
+    /** default value for max_pit_entries is defined in ccn-iribu-defs.h as
+     * CCNL_DEFAULT_MAX_PIT_ENTRIES
+     * it is set to -1 (means infinity) for anything other than arduino, riot or android
+     * this code checks if max_pit_entries isn't defaulted to -1 and then compares its
+     * value against the pitcnt value */
     if ((ccnl->max_pit_entries != -1) && (ccnl->pitcnt >= ccnl->max_pit_entries)) {
         ccnl_pkt_free(i->pkt);
         ccnl_free(i);
diff --git a/src/ccnl-pkt/src/ccnl-pkt-ndntlv.c b/src/ccnl-pkt/src/ccnl-pkt-ndntlv.c
index c1a0ecff..f51fac05 100644
--- a/src/ccnl-pkt/src/ccnl-pkt-ndntlv.c
+++ b/src/ccnl-pkt/src/ccnl-pkt-ndntlv.c
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ ccnl_ndntlv_bytes2pkt(uint64_t pkttype, uint8_t *start,
     pkt->s.ndntlv.maxsuffix = CCNL_MAX_NAME_COMP;
 
     /* set default lifetime, in case InterestLifetime guider is absent */
-    pkt->s.ndntlv.interestlifetime = CCNL_INTEREST_TIMEOUT;
+    pkt->s.ndntlv.interestlifetime = CCNL_INTEREST_TIMEOUT * 1000;    // ms
 
     oldpos = *data - start;
     while (ccnl_ndntlv_dehead(data, datalen, &typ, &len) == 0) {