[rbridge] Pseudonode minimization thoughts...

[mike shand]

On 31/01/2008 Radia Perlman wrote:
> You said that to report a neighbor it is 12 octets for narrow metrics, 
> and 1 octets for wide metrics. Is that backwards perhaps?
> I'd think it should take more space to report a side metric, but no 
> matter -- I'll use 12 octets per neighbor. (though it would
> be nice to get a clarification on that -- I could imagine that when 
> they redid the TLV for reporting metrics, they not only
> widened the metric but also compressed the format, or maybe got rid of 
> multiple metrics).
>
Excatly. 12 for narrow, 11 for wide, becuase although the metric istelf 
uses 3 octets rather than one, we only have the single metric, rather 
than 4 separate metrics.

    Mike