To speed up the time before forwarding is enabled, set the forwarding delay and hello timers to 0. brctl setfd 0 brctl sethello 0 Or alternatively use the attached patch to skip the timers when STP is disabled. -- Henrik Nordstrom MARA Systems AB Sweden Ribert Siemer wrote: > I switched STP off, but the ports still don't go diretly to forwarding > state. What's the matter?
br_stp_off_forward.patch