On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:38:37PM +1000, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> I think it's a place of ambiguity in the spec, perhaps.  for example,
> with the indigo switch firmware (OF 1.0), if there's a cable
> plugged-in, and I pull it out, then I see OFPPS_LINK_DOWN in the
> modified port description.  if there's a cable plugged-in, and from
> the switch OS, I do an 'ifconfig down', then I see both
> OFPPS_LINK_DOWN and OFPPC_PORT_DOWN in the ofp_port_status message.

Linux doesn't allow querying link status when a port is administratively
down, so Linux-based implementations, at least, are not going to have a
useful OFPPS_LINK_DOWN status if OFPPC_PORT_DOWN is set.
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