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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
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On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, jamal wrote:

> The only useful state transitions are to/from IFOP_DOWN_NOCARRIER
> in my opinion. What do you think?

I meant this view from a "listener" perspective; example from an
SNMP NMS perspective or even a dynamic route daemon, this is the only
really interesting state transition. So IMO, it only makes sense to send
netlink messages for these.

cheers,
jamal