[Bridge] Bridge ports needlessly going through learning stage when STP is disabled

[Uli Luckas]

Am Monday, 17. November 2008 schrieb Francesco Dolcini:
> rahul bhardwaj wrote:
> > Is this the right behavior ? The 15 to 30 second delay before the
> > port moves to Forwarding state can be frustrating, as you don't
> > expect it, and for that period of time, start to think there is
> > something else wrong in the network's configuration. Is there any
> > place in the code where I do some change to resolve this issue.
>
> At the moment the normal way to handle this is "brctl setfd $BR_DEV 0"
>
Except that setting fd to zero might get you flooded. See thread "delay in 
bridge learning when forward delay is 0" here on the list. [1] 

regards,
Uli


[1] http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20081013.181016.4cbfa529.de.html

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