Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Spanning tree can slow the network?

[Andrea <an.celli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Patrick

But I don't understand why this pause occurs always on this sequence:

716    8.713191000    192.168.1.12    192.168.1.2    TCP    54    50014 > microsoft-ds [ACK] Seq=47596 Ack=55126 Win=63153 Len=0
717    9.999665000    NexcomIn_1e:63:47    Spanning-tree-(for-bridges)_00    STP    60    Conf. Root = 32768/0/00:10:f3:1e:63:45  Cost = 0  Port = 0x8003
718    10.689862000    192.168.1.12    192.168.1.2    TCP    362    [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
719    10.690663000    192.168.1.2    192.168.1.12    HTTP    79    HTTP/1.1 100 Continue


More than one second to receive another packet from the server (192.168.1.2) , I think this cannot be normal behaviour.
How do I know if is normal or if it is possible optimize it?

Hi Andrea,

Spanning Tree is normal in switched networks, Bridges must send them. 

A Problem can be recalculation and reordetring of the tree.

If you what to read more about this you can read "interconnections" from radia perlmann.

Hth

Cheers

Patrick

Am Samstag, 14. Juli 2012 schrieb Andrea :

Hello guys,
I've captured network traffic from some customer's LAN for monitor behaviour of slow applications, in all cases I've found spanning tree packets that slow the transactions, like this:

    Spanning-tree-(for-bridge)  STP  Cost=4  port=0x8003

every time there is a spanning tree packet follow after a pause of time (about 1 sec.)  before arrives other data packets, this behaviour I've seen either in LAN with many switches and in LAN when switch was only one.

How it is possible? I don't have configure spanning tree on switches. Can this be a normal behaviour ?

Thanks
Andrew
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