[c-nsp] Routing design question

[Marian Ďurkovič]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:56:06AM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > Well, if it's truly gigE, then auto-negotiation will be more responsive 
> > to failures than UDLD.  
> 
> Will auto-neg signal one-way fiber failures (after the link has already
> been brought up and autoneg'ed successfully)?  Never tried that.

Yes, it works much better (and faster) than UDLD. The endpoint which
has lost receive fiber will immediately signal "RemoteFault" to the
other end and line protocol will go down on both sides within miliseconds.


	With kind regards,

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