> Seems like ³marginal link² is associated with the IGP behavior

No.  A marginal link is simply one that has a measurable amount of packet
loss.

On a properly functioning wired network, you don't have any marginal
links: a link is either up or down, and a link that is up has negligible
amount of packet loss (the link, not the switches).  A marginal link is
one that's neither up or down -- it's somewhere in between.

This is made somewhat more complicated by layer 2 ARQ (for example, in
802.11b a link that is marginal at the physical layer will usually appear
as merely slow for unicast traffic, but clearly marginal for multicast;
weirder things are possible in 802.11a/g/n).

> Is this close to what a ³marginal link² is?

No.  Being marginal is a property of a link, it has nothing to do with the
IGP.

-- Juliusz

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