An interface entry removed, on the XGS 136, 2026-10-24
The page on VLAN connections in hardware (issue 725) said an interface entry is
switched off and never removed, because there is no command that removes one. That was not
checked: the coprocessor's command list has RPC_CMD_LIF_DELETE (4), and the vendor's handler for it
(usfp_rh/lif_rpc.c, lif_delete then lif_fpop_delete) takes a four-byte index and marks the
entry invalid. The sentence is struck there and in the OCTEON TX LIF notes,
and this is the measurement behind the correction.
The whole page, with how it was taken and what it does not show: An interface entry removed, on the XGS 136, 2026-10-24.
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