Hi, Don't you mean IEEE 802.1s as MST?
Thanx, Jaap On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Sake Blok wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I was troubleshooting a spanning-tree issue at a customer. > The customer is running MST and I collected some BPDU's. Unfortunately > these BPDU's are not properly decoded by Wireshark. In order to start > writing my first (real) addition to Wireshark I downloaded the > IEEE 802.1D-2004 and the IEEE 802.1Q-2003 and read though them (I added > a link to IEEE 802.1Q-2003 to the Wiki page on STP). > > To me it looks like the BPDU-packet layout described in that document > is not the one I am seeing in my tracefile. First of all the > Configuration Identifier field (octet 39 of the BPDU) is not 0 as > the IEEE document states, but seems to be the length of the MST extension > data in de BPDU. Also the Extension data is formatted differently from the > specs. > > Does anyone know if the Cisco-implementation of MST is proprietary? Or is > there maybe a standard that evolved after 2003? Any documentation on > (cisco) MST BPDU's is welcome. Also if someone has some STP, RST and MST > packets laying around in traces, please send them to me so when I write > a patch I can make sure I don't break things for other BPDU's :) > > Cheers, > > Sake > _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
