[ofa-general] ***SPAM*** Re: [PATCH] opensm: disable switch ports only

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Eli Dorfman <dorfman.eli at gmail.com> wrote:

> More generic approach would be to disable the port with the least hop count.
> this will address the case of inter switch link where the most remote port (from opensm) is sending traps.
> in that case we would like to disable the nearest switch port.

Yes, that's another approach and has the potential advantage of
disabling fewer ports when more ports are babbling. It does assume a
closer interswitch link which doesn't affect any other endports.

Anyhow, IMO the trap rate issue has been around long enough to have
been fixed in those SMAs.

-- Hal

> Eli.