Multiple Instance Spanning-Tree Operation

 

Troubleshooting an MSTP Configuration

 

 

Field

Description

 

 

RST BPDUs Tx

Number of (802.1w) RST BPDUs that are transmitted through the port. This counter is

 

maintained by the CIST (default MST instance 0) on a per-port basis.

 

 

RST BPDUs Rx

Number of (802.1w) RST BPDUs that are received on the port. This counter is maintained

 

by the CIST (default MST instance 0) on a per-port basis.

 

 

MST BPDUs Tx

Number of (802.1s) MST BPDUs that are transmitted through the port. This counter is

 

maintained by the CIST (default MST instance 0) on a per-port basis.

 

 

MST BPDUs Rx

Number of (802.1s) MST BPDUs that are received on the port. This counter is maintained

 

by the CIST (default MST instance 0) on a per-port basis.

 

 

MSTI MSGs Tx

Number of times that a configuration message for a specific MSTI was encoded in (802.1s)

 

MST BPDUs that are transmitted through the port. This counter is maintained on a per-MSTI

 

per-port basis.

 

 

MSTI MSGs Rx

Number of times that the MSTI detected a configuration message destined to the MSTI in

 

(802.1s) MST BPDUs received on the port. This counter is maintained on a per-MSTI per-

 

port basis.

 

 

Troubleshooting MSTP Operation

Table 4-2. Troubleshooting MSTP Operation

Problem

Possible Cause

 

 

Duplicate packets on a VLAN, or packets not

The allocation of VLANs to MSTIs may not be identical among all

arriving on a LAN at all.

switches in a region.

 

 

A switch intended to operate in a region does

An MSTP switch intended for a particular region may not have the same

not receive traffic from other switches in the

configuration name or region revision number as the other switches

region.

intended for the same region. The MSTP configuration name (spanning-

 

tree config-namecommand) and MSTP configuration revision number

 

(spanning-treeconfig-revisioncommand) must be identical on all MSTP

 

switches intended for the same region.

 

Another possible cause is that the set of VLANs and VLAN ID-to-MSTI

 

mappings (spanning-tree instance vlan command) configured on the

 

switch may not match the set of VLANs and VLAN ID-to-MSTI mappings

 

configured on other switches in the intended region.

 

 

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