[c-nsp] Sup720 won't log link status changes? WTF?!

[Robert A. Hayden]

Ok, this is just a mid-afternoon rant, but I'm just stunned by this.

Last week we began converting our campus backbone from Sup2/MSFC2s over to 
Sup720-3BXL cards.  A painful process since we're also moving from hybrid 
to IOS.

Along the way I discover that the logs on the routers no longer show when 
a port physically go up or down.  It will trap, but nothing actually 
occurs in the log files.  Of course, the "logging event link-status" 
command is still accepted, it just doesn't work.

So, opening a case with TAC about this rather obvious shortcoming results 
in the typic "it's supposed to be that way" response along with an 
invitation to submit a feature request.

(Relevant release note buried so deep nobody could find it):
	http://tinyurl.com/4a7kb

GARGH!

Who was the marketing genius that decided people wouldn't want to know
when ports went up or down?!??!  Is there _any_ logical reason for this 
that anyone can figure out?

Ok, end of rant.  Time to enjoy the last nice days of the fall.

Robert Hayden
Senior Network Engineer
University of Wisconsin Madison