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From: Francesco Dolcini <fdolcini@sysnetsistemi.it>
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] Bridge ports needlessly going through learning stage
 when	STP is disabled
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To: rahul bhardwaj <rahul_bhardwaj36in@yahoo.co.in>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org

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"

-Francesco