[rbridge] AF change handling

James Carlson james.d.carlson at sun.com
Tue Jun 3 04:13:07 PDT 2008


Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 writes:
> That would work but not be quite as good because if the AF status of a
> port flapped (changed and then changed back to its original state
> quickly), it would not generate the same value. But maybe that advantage
> is too small to bother with.

In some cases, "flaps" are actually changes in attachment -- i.e.,
someone moving patch cables around -- and I'm not so sure I'd want to
try to optimize that one away.  Catching the event does sound good
enough to me.

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