Any chance IGMP snooping is enabled on your system or anything on the network? It takes time for devices to join IGMP groups (on startup or waking from sleep) and it can get compounded by devices using different versions of IGMP.
________________________________ From: Roy <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2026 6:12 AM To: john doe <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Delay in network connectivity with bridge network setup Debian Trixie On Mon, 2026-04-13 at 13:37 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 4/13/26 12:51 PM, Roy wrote: > > I have set up a bridge network using NetworkManager, but I > > experience a > > delay in network connectivity when waking from sleep and during > > startup. > > > > The output of nmcli device status is: > > > > DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION > > br0 bridge connected br0 > > enp2s0 ethernet connected br0-slave > > lo loopback connected (externally) lo > > > I'm only talking about the bridge issue while starting up. > > Do you see something in the logs (race condition with the ethernet > interface...)? Did not find any enp2s0 or br0 in boot log, don't know if I need to search somewere else, but i found this setting tha seems to mitigate the "problem": nmcli connection modify br0 bridge.forward-delay 4 (<- secs) now it is indeef faster to catch up , I understand this is a normal behaviour with bridge network and I lowered th value to 4 secs. If anyone has other suggestions, they are welcome.

