[rbridge] Hop Count processing

Dinesh G Dutt ddutt at cisco.com
Mon Jun 1 08:02:36 PDT 2009


Using regular frames was my intention. Since end stations are not 
invlved, I can test actual customer frame and thereby know the exact 
path for a frame.

Joe Touch wrote:
> Why is that useful for traceroute?
>
> (I'm guessing that one of you thinks that we can get away without a
> "ping" message, i.e., that we can trace regular packets. That won't
> work, however, if the egress rbridge has more than one egress address,
> as I discussed.)
>
>   
Do you mean for multi-dst addresses ?

Dinesh

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