March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
17h 32m
English
The best way to find STP problems is to log in to the LAN switches and use the vendor's commands (for example, Cisco IOS or Juniper JUNOS CLI) to find and fix the problem. If you have properly configured SNMP on your network device, you will get all the messages on the management console, unless STP problems somehow cause issues for the switches to communicate with the management system.
The purpose of this recipe is to show how to use Wireshark for this purpose, even though we still recommend using it as a second-line tool for this purpose. So just open your laptop, start Wireshark, and start capturing data on the LAN.
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