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I was testing FDDI using a small ring with 4 nodes on it. When I rebooted
one node, the traffic between two other nodes was interrupted for
almost a second. This surprised me. I thought that with the high data rate,
short distances and few nodes it would be able to recreate a new token
in some tens of milliseconds (most of which would be to detect that it
is lost).

I've heard that the process in reality takes double the time you would
expect because first the ring is felt broken and will reconfigure itself 
into U-shape and start token regeneration, then immediately it will 
reconfigure itself as a ring and again start a new token regeneration.
So each regeneration was probably less than half a second, but that is
still a lot.

I would like to speed up the token regeneration process in a small
FDDI ring at least 10 times. Is there some parameters you can configure to
do that?

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