Re: Forward-delay time

From: James Ventre (messageboard@ventrefamily.com)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2006 - 10:58:08 ART


>forwarding in less than 16 seconds your forward
>delay would have to be 8 or lower.

Wording on things like this can be tricky.

8 + 8 = 16 (ie. it's not less than 16), so you'd really need it to be 7 or less - correct?

James

Brian McGahan wrote:
> The forward-delay command configures each of the listening and
> learning phase timers. This means that if you have it configured as 15
> that it will take 30 seconds to go through both phases. If you want to
> move from blocking to forwarding in less than 16 seconds your forward
> delay would have to be 8 or lower.
>
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