H3C SOHO IE4300, Command Reference Manual

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Usage guidelines
The forward delay timer determines the time interval of state transition. To prevent temporary loops,
a spanning tree port goes through the learning (intermediate) state before it transits from the
discarding state to the forwarding state. To stay synchronized with the remote device, the port has a
wait period that is determined by the forward delay timer between transition states.
As a best practice, do not set the forward delay with this command. Instead, you can specify the
network diameter of the switched network by using the
stp bridge-diameter
command. This
command makes the spanning tree protocols automatically calculate the optimal settings for the
forward delay timer. If the network diameter uses the default value, the forward delay timer also uses
the default value.
Examples
# In MSTP mode, set the forward delay timer to 2000 centiseconds.
<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] stp timer forward-delay 2000
# In PVST mode, set the forward delay timer for VLAN 2 to 2000 centiseconds.
<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] stp vlan 2 timer forward-delay 2000
Related commands
stp bridge-diameter
stp timer hello
stp timer max-age
stp timer hello
Use stp timer hello to set the hello time.
Use
undo stp timer hello
to restore the default.
Syntax
stp [ vlan vlan-id-list ] timer hello time
undo stp [ vlan vlan-id-list ] timer hello
Default
The hello time is 200 centiseconds.
Views
System view
Predefined user roles
network-admin
Parameters
vlan vlan-id-list : Specifies a space-separated list of up to 10 VLAN items. Each item
specifies a VLAN or a range of VLANs in the form of vlan-id1 [ to vlan-id2 ] . The value for
vlan-id2
must be equal to or greater than the value for
vlan-id1
. The value range for the
vlan-id
argument is 1 to 4094. If you set the STP, RSTP, or MSTP hello time, do not specify this
option.
time
: Specifies the hello time in centiseconds, in the range of 100 to 1000 in increments of 100 (as
in 100, 200, 300).