[rbridge] potential L2 forwarding loop issue in RBridges

[James Carlson]

Donald Eastlake writes:
> Native frame loop safety Hellos: Sent as in the current Draft on the
> Designated VLAN and possibly many others. Have the same IS PDU type
> and fixed header fields as adjacency Hello but only have the
> additional data needed for loop safety. In particular, only items 1,
> 2, and 4 from the current section 4.2.3.1.2 and do not have an IS
> Neighbor TLV and do not have padding.
> 
> Does the above seem reasonable as a starting point?

You won't be able to avoid including (5) from the current 4.2.3.1.2,
because it's in the same sub-TLV with the rest, but, yes, that sounds
reasonable to me.

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