On 18 May 2007, at 19:40, James Carlson wrote:
It's not just that it's redundant and unnecessary, it's that it's also potentially harmful. If you have a link flapping in the breeze, you'll end up with a log file spammed with useless entries. That's why I want to see it gone.
And in contrast, if you are trying to diagnose an application failure caused by a transient link outage (eg someone unplugged the wrong cable), then I would say it is essential information.
To follow on from Garrett's comments, I don't think there is a dladm based solution for that situation (unless dladm can be enhanced to show the last 'n' link transitions).
I suppose one could argue that for a critical application, IPMP should be in use (which also logs link failures) but it is still nice to have a record of such events on single NIC servers.
Log file spam from a flapping link seems to me to be in the same category as the spam you get from a disk with retriable errors... It's irksome that it fills the log, but you wouldn't want to miss it.
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