You have two options
a) When disabling STP, also set all the delay timers to 0.
b) Patch the bridge to ignore STP timers when STP is disabled [attaced]
Regards
Henrik Nordstr�m
MARA Systems AB, Sweden
Robert Siemer wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I switched STP off, but the ports still don't go diretly to forwarding
> state. What's the matter?
>
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> eth1: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x0, ISR=0x0, t=40.
>
> --- Right, cable disconnected
>
> br0: port 2(eth1) entering disabled state
>
> --- I did "ip link set eth1 down"
> --- and later "ip link set eth1 up"
>
> br0: port 2(eth1) entering listening state
> br0: port 2(eth1) entering learning state
> br0: port 2(eth1) entering forwarding state
> br0: topology change detected, propagating
>
> --- This takes a minute...
>
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> eth1: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x0, ISR=0x0, t=31.
>
> --- Now the bridge is forwarding
> --- ...still no cable there, but this stays the same the other way...
>
> Everthing would be fine, but
> [root@panorama root]# brctl show
> bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
> br0 8000.00201880e21d no eth0
> eth1
>
> shows, that I switched STP off!
>
> As the "brctl" tool has no "--version" switch, I cant tell you what I
> have... (-:
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Regards,
> Robert
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