Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] filter out PVST packets?

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:15:27 -0700
On Oct 27, 2011, at 10:51 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> PVSTP+ does *NOT* use the standard Ethernet type or LLC SAP for STP; instead, it uses SNAP and an OUI of 00:00:0C and a protocol ID of 0x010b.  Unfortunately, there's no simple primitive to check for SNAP+{OUI}+{Protocol ID}.  The way you way you do that is dependent on the link layer type; for Ethernet I think it'd be
> 
> 	ether[12:2] <= 1500 and ether[14:4] == 0xaaaa0300 and ether[18:4] == 0x000c0010b

Err, sorry, that's

	not (ether[12:2] <= 1500 and ether[14:4] == 0xaaaa0300 and ether[18:4] == 0x000c0010b)

if you *don't* want PVST+.  If you don't want STP *or* PVST+, it's

	not stp and not (ether[12:2] <= 1500 and ether[14:4] == 0xaaaa0300 and ether[18:4] == 0x000c0010b)