Forward Delay Before Ports Transition to Forwarding State
The forwarding delay timer specifies the length of time a spanning-tree protocol bridge port remains in the listening and learning states before transitioning to the forwarding state. Setting the interval too short could cause unnecessary spanning-tree reconvergence. Before changing this parameter, you should have a thorough understanding of spanning-tree protocols.
To configure the forwarding delay timer, include the following statement:
forward-delay seconds;
You can include this statement at the following hierarchy levels:
- [edit protocols rstp]
- [edit protocols mstp]
- [edit protocols vstp vlan vlan-id]
- [edit routing-instances routing-instance-name protocols rstp]
- [edit routing-instances routing-instance-name protocols (mstp]
- [edit routing-instances routing-instance-name protocols vstp vlan vlan-id]
