[rbridge] Consensus Check: Configure portstodisable end stationtraffic

[Anoop Ghanwani]

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> [mailto:rbridge-bounces at postel.org] On Behalf Of James Carlson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:51 AM
> To: Eric Gray
> Cc: Rbridge at postel.org; Joe Touch
> Subject: Re: [rbridge] Consensus Check: Configure 
> portstodisable end stationtraffic
> 

> I'd be ok with either intended option, but would slightly 
> prefer not bothering to document this special link behavior, 
> as it looks to me to be the sort of enhancement that vendors 
> could cook up on their own without affecting either TRILL 
> interoperability or ordinary RBridge operation.  It's not 
> something I think is strictly _needed_ in the TRILL document 
> in order to make it complete ... though it seems Anoop does.

I agree it's not absolutely needed, but now that we have
discussed it on the mailing list, that we know it's useful,
and that we know the potential problems, we might as well
document it so we don't have to depend on every implementer
figuring it out for themselves.

Anoop