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..., so I executed the following: # brctl sethello br0 30 Then I had a look at the value that was set: # cat /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/hello_time 2999 Much bigger than expected. I started looking at the source. In the libbridge/libbridge_devif.c file of brctl, we have the following routine: int br_set_bridge_hello_time(const char *br, struct timeval *tv) { return br_set(br, "hello_time", __tv_to_jiffies(tv), BRCTL_SET_BRIDGE_HELLO_TIME); } Note the tv_to_jiffies() call. Then, I looked in the kernel file linux/net/bridge/br_sysfs_br.c at the following function: static vo...