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nasss
Aspirant
Mar 31, 2021

Vendor specific packet drop

System Description............................. M4100-26G-POE ProSafe 24-port Gigabit L2+ Intelligent Edge PoE Managed Switch, 10.0.2.30, B1.0.1.1
Machine Model.................................. M4100-26G-POE

 

Hi Community,

 

I have this switch used in our organisation LAB. I have to use it to connect a Wifi Bridge to a home gatway.

The Wifi bridge uses a vendor specific protocol to auto discover and connect to the HGW.

 

My issue is that the packets used for discovery are droped by the switch.

 

While doing a monitoring, I can see that the packet enter the interface (in) and then disapears (from the intf out)

 

details of the packet identified by wireshark (Type: unknown):

 

Frame 437: 111 bytes on wire (888 bits), 111 bytes captured (888 bits) on interface eth0, id 0
Ethernet II, Src: Sagemcom_2d:b4:e0 (24:7f:20:2d:b4:e0), Dst: Spanning-tree-(for-bridges)_ef:03:fe (01:80:c2:ef:03:fe)
Destination: Spanning-tree-(for-bridges)_ef:03:fe (01:80:c2:ef:03:fe)
Address: Spanning-tree-(for-bridges)_ef:03:fe (01:80:c2:ef:03:fe)
.... ..0. .... .... .... .... = LG bit: Globally unique address (factory default)
.... ...1 .... .... .... .... = IG bit: Group address (multicast/broadcast)
Source: Sagemcom_2d:b4:e0 (24:7f:20:2d:b4:e0)
Address: Sagemcom_2d:b4:e0 (24:7f:20:2d:b4:e0)
.... ..0. .... .... .... .... = LG bit: Globally unique address (factory default)
.... ...0 .... .... .... .... = IG bit: Individual address (unicast)
Type: Unknown (0xfe68)
Data (97 bytes)
data 03030485267500800180c2ef03fe247f202db4e0004f53500303008526750080bf68cd57…
[Length: 97]

 

 

 

Any idea why this packet is not forwarded ?

 

Many thanks in advance

 

5 Replies

  • Why should a STP packet be forwarded?

     

    Provide details on how the devices are conneced, and why you think the STP should be forwarded, or why this WiFi bridge requires this for discovery, ...

    • nasss's avatar
      nasss
      Aspirant

      Hi schumaku ,

      Those messages are used by ATPD for HGW and Wifi bridge discovery.

      Wireshark recognize the destination address  as Dst: Spanning-tree-(for-bridges)_ef:03:fe. However it marks protocol type as Unknown (0xfe68) and not an STP

       

      Topology:

       

      WiFi Bridge <----->Switch<-----> HGW

      • If you don't need STP, you could try to disable it, and enable the "Forward BPDU while STP disabled", this exists AFAIK on the M4100 series, too.

         

        I would expect they handle/filter the STP protocol based on src and dst address, not on the protocol number. 

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