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vrPpSrtBpHopCountExceededDiscards
Virtual Router Passport Srt Bridge Port Hop Count Exceeded Discards
This attribute specifies the number of All Routes Explore and Spanning Tree Explore frames discarded by this bridge port due to a frame exceeding the maximum size allowed for a route descriptor length. This counter will wrap to zero when it exceeds its maximum.
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