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[mc36 <>]

hi,

On 6/17/22 14:02, Alexander Gall wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:35:02 +0200, mc36 <> said:
>
> > hi,
> > well, if we're talking about workarounds, freerouter already had the knob no 
> > autostate to have a down interface in the routing tables...
> > with this commit 
> > https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr/commit/cc0cb4f563bd5e4da2eeeff6d9c5fa40e3c9f79c
> >  it just passes traffic in such
> > a case... (before it dropped everything regardless of the autostate 
> > configured or not on down interfaces)
> > now i see hw counters reported from the dataplane that is, it went out 
> > somewhere on the tofino model....
>
> Yes, as I said, the model happily passes packets in and out of ports
> that are in the down state. I just checked and the same is true for
> the Tofino2 model as well (remember, there the port is also marked
> with RDY == NO in addition to being in oper DWN state).
>
> So this option makes freertr work on both models, which is nice. The
> only drawback is that we have to add that config option specifically
> for the model. The workaround with the forwarder would avoid that.

so as long as the model is known to be buggy,
imho a note is enough somewhere that for now,
it needs the no autostate knob... and it'll
regardless disappear as soon as we move to
a newer sde... regarding the forwarder, i'm
happy with the current reported states....

br,
cs