11-05-2008 04:40 AM - edited 03-06-2019 02:19 AM
hello
my customer has faced to flapping addresses issue, due to STP reconfiguration problem.
this is intermittent and difficult to catch in live
which logs or debugs can is set on core switches (WS-C4507R 12.2(20)EWA3)
in order to get more informations and if possible knowing switches annoncing as new root ?
thanks in advance for any help or pointer
JYP
11-05-2008 05:19 AM
11-05-2008 05:25 AM
thanks for these links
but i need to have some debugging tools for find the culprit switch annoucing as new root
will debug spanning-tree do that ?
which debugs commands or others logs can i set in order to catch it ?
JYP
11-05-2008 05:26 AM
Do you have some wireless users connected to it. If yes the you are probably getting this because you have a user roaming between two different access points so his mac address keeps wandering between 2 different switch ports.
-amit singh
11-05-2008 05:27 AM
no wireless , but mixed switches vendors..
with lot of loops
JYP
11-05-2008 05:39 AM
Opps.. First thing enable " STP rootguard"/" STP loop guard " " UDLD " on all the Cisco switches.
1. Use " Show spanning-tree details ", this command will tell you the Toplogy change notifications on the switch ports coming. If there are TCN it will tell you the last TCN generated by the respective mac-address.
2. Try tracing the mac-address from where the TCN is getting generated by switch and check if STP working properly.
3. Make sure that you are running a compatibe STP between the Cisco and other switches like PVST+ or RPVST+.
4. Debugging the STP events would be helpful to see all the related information.
-amit singh
11-05-2008 05:47 AM
thanks for these informations
for my understandinf some swithes are running Mstp and others STP..
so even supported seems not the better configuration in production
is it supported by cisco ?
JYP
11-05-2008 05:53 AM
i would say Mstp and single STP configurations
on same network
is it a supported configuration by cisco ?
JYP
11-05-2008 06:07 AM
Well it does work and is supported in end-end Cisco environment like you are running MSTP on some switches and CST ( Common spanning-tree IEEE 802.1D) on some of the switches. Its hard to predict how would it behave in a multi-vendor environment although the expected behaviour is that it will run fine.
Once MSTP sees that there are some CST BPDU's being received it marks those ports as MST boundary region ports and runs CST on the top of it to be compatible with the other switches.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk621/technologies_white_paper09186a0080094cfc.shtml#standard
-amit singh
11-05-2008 07:26 AM
Usually what i do is manualy set the priority lowest on the one i want to be root slightly higher on what would be the secondary. Then on all of the devices on the network set it one up from the default. For troubleshooting usually do the sh mac-ad | in
If you have different roots for different vlans this method will work as well.
Most times in the past this has been cause by a rogue wire looping the network on certian vlans.
Using the above posted commands will help in disableing those ports for you automaticly. you can enable errdiable recovery for these.
11-05-2008 08:38 AM
on root switch i can so a topology change counters incremented but nor address
does it mean that is only on switch come down/up nor asking as new root ?
explaination welcomed
JYP
VLAN0001 is executing the ieee compatible Spanning Tree protocol
Bridge Identifier has priority 12288, sysid 1, address 0014.1c9c.d500
Configured hello time 2, max age 20, forward delay 15
We are the root of the spanning tree
Topology change flag not set, detected flag not set
Number of topology changes 2064 last change occurred 1w5d ago
from GigabitEthernet4/46
Times: hold 1, topology change 35, notification 2
hello 2, max age 20, forward delay 15
Timers: hello 1, topology change 0, notification 0, aging 300
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