I had a case open with Cisco on this same issue pending for 6 months or so then I finally closed the ticket; what I saw was basically the STP pkts was arriving out-of-order due to fragmentation; the remote end never get STP updates as such.

I've been meaning to test this with EoMPLS over GRE to see if STP behaves the same way; one funny thing I did see though that if I turned off the PXF engine on the head-end, then STP gets transmiitted then frrag/defrag properly; down side is that PXF engine provides for enhanced throughput of L2TPv3 (which is very CPU intensive if process switched); in the end Cisco TAC advised us to run VTP domain in transparent mode so as not to pass STP pkts; that's what we are doing now.

If I get around to testing STP updates on EoMPLS over GRE then I'll post my results on this distro list; good luck.


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Regards,
Ge Moua
Network Design Engineer

University of Minnesota | OIT - NTS
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Minneapolis, MN 55414-3029
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Chris Flav wrote:
I am having a devil of a time getting spanning-tree packets to work over a functional L2TPv3 tunnel. I can see arp, cdp, SSDP, and all sorts of other garbage traffic over the link, DHCP works, Internet, the works. However, if I connect a catalyst switch on each end and send STP, I do not see the spanning-tree packets on the remote end of the link. I am using Cisco 800-series routers (cheating by reversing the Fe4 and Vlan1 ports) and as stated, the L2TPv3 tunnel is reliable and functional, with the exception of STP. Is there something fundamental I am missing? See below configs; SiteA:
======
l2tp-class l2-dyn
 authentication
 hostname MTL
password 7 071B29495E08
 cookie size 8
!
!
pseudowire-class pw-dynamic
 encapsulation l2tpv3
 protocol l2tpv3 l2-dyn
ip local interface Vlan1
!
!
!
interface FastEthernet4
no ip address
 duplex auto
 speed auto
 no cdp enable
xconnect 66.xxx.xxx.xxx 1 encapsulation l2tpv3 pw-class pw-dynamic
!
interface Vlan1
 ip address 66.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.192
no ip proxy-arp show l2tun session all L2TP Session Information Total tunnels 1 sessions 1 Session id 61551 is up, tunnel id 735
  Remote session id is 21103, remote tunnel id 25982
Locally initiated session
Call serial number is 2414100001
Remote tunnel name is SHE
  Internet address is 66.xxx.xxx.21
Local tunnel name is MTL
  Internet address is 66.xxx.xxx.195
IP protocol 115
Session is L2TP signaled
  Session state is established, time since change 00:09:59
DF bit off, ToS reflect disabled, ToS value 0, TTL value 255 UDP checksums are disabled
  Session cookie information:
local cookie, size 8 bytes, value CB 2A 48 48 59 BA 49 A5 remote cookie, size 8 bytes, value 0D F2 0A CF 7A ED 2A B4
  FS cached header information:
encap size = 32 bytes
    45000014 00000000 FF73347F 429E81C3
42818015 0000526F 0DF20ACF 7AED2AB4 1327 Packets sent, 12 received
    119801 Bytes sent, 1295 received
Last clearing of counters never
  Counters, ignoring last clear:
1327 Packets sent, 12 received
    119801 Bytes sent, 1295 received
Receive packets dropped:
      out-of-order:             0
total: 0
    Send packets dropped:
      exceeded session MTU:     0
total: 0
  Sequencing is off
Conditional debugging is disabled
  Unique ID is 1
Session Layer 2 circuit, type is Ethernet, name is FastEthernet4
  Session vcid is 1
  Circuit state is UP
Local circuit state is UP
    Remote circuit state is UP
SiteB:
=====
l2tp-class l2-dyn
 authentication
 hostname SHE
 password 7 14031A0E1C0
cookie size 8
!
!
pseudowire-class pw-dynamic
 encapsulation l2tpv3
 protocol l2tpv3 l2-dyn
ip local interface Vlan1
!
!
interface FastEthernet4
 no ip address
 duplex auto
 speed auto
no cdp enable xconnect 66.xxx.xxx.195 1 encapsulation l2tpv3 pw-class pw-dynamic
!
interface Vlan1
 ip address 66.xxx.xxx.21 255.255.255.0
no ip proxy-arp show l2tun session all L2TP Session Information Total tunnels 1 sessions 1 Session id 21103 is up, tunnel id 25982
  Remote session id is 61551, remote tunnel id 735
Remotely initiated session
Call serial number is 15905
Remote tunnel name is MTL
  Internet address is 66.xxx.xxx.195
Local tunnel name is SHE
Internet address is 66.xxx.xxx.21
IP protocol 115
Session is L2TP signaled
  Session state is established, time since change 00:12:43
DF bit off, ToS reflect disabled, ToS value 0, TTL value 255 UDP checksums are disabled
  Session cookie information:
local cookie, size 8 bytes, value 0D F2 0A CF 7A ED 2A B4 remote cookie, size 8 bytes, value CB 2A 48 48 59 BA 49 A5
  FS cached header information:
encap size = 32 bytes
    45000014 00000000 FF73347F 42818015
429E81C3 0000F06F CB2A4848 59BA49A5 14 Packets sent, 1607 received
    1415 Bytes sent, 145299 received
Last clearing of counters never
  Counters, ignoring last clear:
14 Packets sent, 1607 received
    1415 Bytes sent, 145299 received
Receive packets dropped:
      out-of-order:             0
total: 0
    Send packets dropped:
      exceeded session MTU:     0
total: 0
  Sequencing is off
Conditional debugging is disabled
  Unique ID is 1
Session Layer 2 circuit, type is Ethernet, name is FastEthernet4
  Session vcid is 1
  Circuit state is UP
Local circuit state is UP
    Remote circuit state is UP
Any ideas?!


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