Hi,
Being an long time happy Sonos user, however there is one point that still remains a pain with Sonos. Spanning Tree... Having a mixed network with various Cisco, Linksys, Engenius AccessPoints getting a common Spanning Tree configuration has proven to be impossible.
The main reason is the path cost of 10 on the Sonos (and to my knowledge no way of changing this) some devices support "short" and "long" whilst others support only "short". In other words long == 200.000, short == 19. Whilst the Sonos is using 10 for fast ethernet.
So getting STP correctly setup with the main bridges (2xCisco SG200-18, 4xSG200-08, 2xEngenius EAP600, 1 x EAP3660) and Sonos is impossible.
I was thinking, with the Sonos' to add them all to their dedicated VLAN, whereby the switches forward the STP frames instead of processing them. (all Cisco's can do this) This vlan will hold all S5's (5 in total, all wired due to WiFi dropouts - big, heavy bearing walls) and one interface of the Sonos Bridge. (This Vlan will also have it's DHCP server to assign IPs to the devices.)
The second interface of the Sonos Bridge will then be in a vlan where also the iPhones, Macs etc are which run the Sonos app. However the Sonos Bridge must not bridge but act a device with two distinct interfaces.
I assume this is not officially supported, but any one any suggestions of getting it setup this way?
Thx in advance,
Stijn
Being an long time happy Sonos user, however there is one point that still remains a pain with Sonos. Spanning Tree... Having a mixed network with various Cisco, Linksys, Engenius AccessPoints getting a common Spanning Tree configuration has proven to be impossible.
The main reason is the path cost of 10 on the Sonos (and to my knowledge no way of changing this) some devices support "short" and "long" whilst others support only "short". In other words long == 200.000, short == 19. Whilst the Sonos is using 10 for fast ethernet.
So getting STP correctly setup with the main bridges (2xCisco SG200-18, 4xSG200-08, 2xEngenius EAP600, 1 x EAP3660) and Sonos is impossible.
I was thinking, with the Sonos' to add them all to their dedicated VLAN, whereby the switches forward the STP frames instead of processing them. (all Cisco's can do this) This vlan will hold all S5's (5 in total, all wired due to WiFi dropouts - big, heavy bearing walls) and one interface of the Sonos Bridge. (This Vlan will also have it's DHCP server to assign IPs to the devices.)
The second interface of the Sonos Bridge will then be in a vlan where also the iPhones, Macs etc are which run the Sonos app. However the Sonos Bridge must not bridge but act a device with two distinct interfaces.
I assume this is not officially supported, but any one any suggestions of getting it setup this way?
Thx in advance,
Stijn