[rbridge] potential L2 forwarding loop issue in RBridges

[Donald Eastlake]

OK. Item 5 is just a one bit flag so it doesn't seem like a big deal either way.

Thanks,
Donald

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:55 PM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> 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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