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On 10/29/06, Sake Blok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The attached file is a patch to packet-bpdu.c so that Wireshark is
> able to dissect the Cisco MST BPDU's that I encountered last week.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Sake
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:32:00AM +0200, 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
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>
>
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