OT: linksys wrt54g spamming stp message every two seconds

[Rob Funk]

Stephen J. Smith wrote:
> I just upgraded the firmware of my Linksys WRT54G cable/dsl router to
> 2.02.7.  Now it is sending some kind of spanning tree protocol message
> *every two seconds*.  It didn't do this before the upgrade.  Is this
> perfectly reasonable behavior?

Did you check the configuration?  There's probably something you can turn 
off.

> [sjs at cobra tmp]$ sudo tcpdump -r stp -s 9999 -x -c 3
> 21:29:09.826623 802.1d config 8000.00:0c:41:d2:9c:d6.8001 root
> 8000.00:0c:41:d2:9c:d6 pathcost 0 age 0 max 20 hello 2 fdelay 0 4242
> 0300 0000 0000 8000 000c 41d2 9cd6 0000 0000 8000 000c 41d2 9cd6 8001
> 0000 1400 0200 0000 a5a5 a5a5 a5a5 a5a5

Wait, that's going out on the LAN (internal) ports?!  That's really weird.


Personally I'd upgrade that firmware away from Linksys.  Since the WRT54G 
runs Linux, it's quite hackable, and there are a few third-party firmware 
projects.  For example:
  http://www.sveasoft.com/forums.html

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