Package: bridge-utils On Oct 05, Santiago Garcia Mantinan <ma...@manty.net> wrote:
> > What is the pointing of waiting for $MAXWAIT if the STP is disabled? > Well, it is the user that decides if he wants STP disabled and MAXWAIT set, > it can be used for a lot of things, it will help in making the boot wait for > the bridge to be ready so that network mounts or any other thing network > dependant on boot works ok. Except that this has nothing to do with the purpose of bridge-utils, if it were a general problem we would enable such a feature for all interfaces. If the STP is disabled there is no reason to wait, so in this case $MAXWAIT should default to zero instead of wasting 30 seconds. > I'd use that kind of setup for example when you are connected to switches > that take some time after there is link before they start forwarding your > packages or when you don't have STP but you know you should wait for a time > before sending packages on the bridge. I am aware of the behaviour of switch ports when they have STP enabled without portfast, but again this is unrelated to bridge-utils. -- ciao, Marco
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