I think there is value to know the number of times an interface has flapped
in addition to the last time it happened.

The interface flapped over the weekend?  Not sure I care that much.  The
interface last flapped over the weekend and the counter went up 6000
times?  I probably need to check it out.

donald

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Paul Jakma <p...@jakma.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, Christian Franke wrote:
>
> From: Christian Franke <nob...@nowhere.ws>
>>
>> It is quite useful to be able to assert whether specific interfaces have
>> flapped or also to verify that specific interfaces have not flapped.
>>
>
> By having counters for those events and storing the last time of their
>> occurrence, this is made possible.
>>
>
> +  unsigned int up_count;
>> +  char up_last[QUAGGA_TIMESTAMP_LEN];
>> +  unsigned int down_count;
>> +  char down_last[QUAGGA_TIMESTAMP_LEN];
>> +
>>
>
> Why not just store timestamps here?
>
> It'd be nice to have "Move UI out of core processes" as a goal, and it'd
> be nice to keep UI related formatting out of core stuff as a result, or not?
>
> regards,
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