[rbridge] AF change handling

[Eastlake III Donald-LDE008]

That's a good point.
Donald 

-----Original Message-----
From: James Carlson [mailto:james.d.carlson at sun.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:13 AM
To: Eastlake III Donald-LDE008
Cc: Ravi Shekhar; rbridge at postel.org
Subject: Re: [rbridge] AF change handling

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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