On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 07:59, Dan wrote: > Normal STP should converge within 50 seconds. > 2*forward time + max_age time = 15*2 + 20 = 50
Well it was, in fact, all working fine. I just thought I had problems. The ping stream from a machine that was attached to the same hub as the bridges stopped as soon as I dropped the active bridge and did not restart (I still don't know why) and I had not appreciated how long pfctl -si took before it reflected changes in the flow rates. When I first tried this yesterday after about three minutes with things apparently 'not working' I got cold feet and backed out. Dan suggested that I watch the state transitions on the secondary bridge with brconfig and this morning it performed exactly as expected so we are now happily running on the backup. Thanks very much to Dan! -- Russell Fulton /~\ The ASCII Network Security Officer \ / Ribbon Campaign The University of Auckland X Against HTML New Zealand / \ Email!
