Laine Stump <laine(a)laine.org> wrote on 12/21/2015 12:17:54 PM:
This does cause a difference in behavior, so I want confirmation from
Cisco and IBM that this behavior change is desired (or at least not
*un*desired) - rather than returning with status unchanged (and thus
always 0, aka PORT_VDP_RESPONSE_SUCCESS) when instanceId is NULL, it
will actually get the IFLA_PORT_RESPONSE. This could lead to
revelation of error conditions we were previously ignoring. Or
not. Only experimentation will tell. Note that for 802.1Qbg instanceId
is *always* NULL, and for 802.1Qbh, it is NULL for all DISASSOCIATE
commands.
I have forwarded this request to others who have the hardware to test
with, though this may take some time to get an answer back...
Stefan