On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 06:01:17PM +0400, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote: > virNetDevBridgeSetSTPDelay accepts delay in milliseconds, > but BSD implementation was expecting seconds. Therefore, > it was working correctly only with delay == 0. > --- > src/util/virnetdevbridge.c | 5 +++-- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/src/util/virnetdevbridge.c b/src/util/virnetdevbridge.c > index ffcb4a4..9d95374 100644 > --- a/src/util/virnetdevbridge.c > +++ b/src/util/virnetdevbridge.c > @@ -593,10 +593,11 @@ int virNetDevBridgeSetSTPDelay(const char *brname, > int delay) > { > struct ifbrparam param; > + u_long delay_seconds = delay / 1000; > > /* FreeBSD doesn't allow setting STP delay < 4 */ > - delay = delay < 4 ? 4 : delay; > - param.ifbrp_fwddelay = ((u_long)delay) & 0xff; > + delay_seconds = delay_seconds < 4 ? 4 : delay_seconds; > + param.ifbrp_fwddelay = delay_seconds & 0xff; > > if (virNetDevBridgeCmd(brname, BRDGSFD, &param, sizeof(param)) < 0) { > virReportSystemError(errno, ACK. Does FreeBSD really not allow setting a delay less than 4 seconds ? That would make PXE boot fairly unreliable, because QEMU will start and iPXE will run significantly before that 4 second network delay has expired causing the PXE packets to be lost.