[rbridge] Hop Count processing

[James Carlson]

Joe Touch writes:
> Until someone has a description of traceroute, it's premature to use
> traceroute as an argument for how to do hopcount processing.

I don't believe that there is another reasonable argument that
supports it.

(I've heard privately that some implementations may have unspecified
"performance problems" if they have to check after decrementing, but
that's just baffling to me, and certainly not a good justification for
changing the way this feature operates.)

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