OT: linksys wrt54g spamming stp message every two seconds

[Stephen J. Smith]

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?

It's not a problem except that I don't like seeing the activity lights
blinking all the time.  I like being able to glance at the thing and
confirm that nothing is going on when I expect nothing to be going on.

tcpdump from the point of view of one of the machines on the lan
follows:

[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
21:29:11.827399 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
21:29:13.828145 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

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Stephen J. Smith | sjs at khadrin.com | http://khadrin.com/