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
>
