DORMANT interface operational state

Started by johnnyva, March 16, 2021, 01:05:52 AM

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johnnyva

Should there be a new expected state to handle the DORMANT state?  It's not necessarily DOWN and its not UP.  Or is it considered DOWN?

This is on a Cisco C1121-8PLTEP WAN Router.

Its currently on what looks like a cellular interface (so 4G failover?).

Victor Kirhenshtein

It is considered down, but status for the interface is set to "Minor" instead of "Critical" if operational state is DORMANT and expected state is UP. If expected state is DOWN and interface is in DORMANT state, then status will be "Normal" because interface is down in a sense that it does not pass operational packets. I don't think there should be expected state DORMANT (as far as I understand it it is more of an exception state that expected to be solved, so it is kind of pointless to expect interface to be in that state normally).

Best regards,
Victor

johnnyva

Sweet sounds good!  Thanks for clarifying.