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IIRC some Sonos issues are related to STP. AFAIK it's, like you said, Sonos being Sonos. Lol.
by donmcronald 1y ago
IIRC some Sonos issues are related to STP. AFAIK it's, like you said, Sonos being Sonos. Lol.
- bc569a80a344f9c 1y agoHow could a Sonos device possibly interact with spanning tree? Are there Sonos devices that act as bridges?
- Polizeiposaune 1y agoMost of their devices act as bridges; some of the newer ones don't. Some have multiple ethernet ports, and anything that has both an ethernet port and is part of their "sonosnet" mutant-wifi will bridge between sonosnet and their ethernet port(s) with spanning tree using classic (pre-RSTP) link costs. If you're not careful you can end up with the "best" path between two switches going over the sonos-to-sonos wifi.
- justusthane 1y agoThat’s nutty!
- petepete 1y agoYeah, that was exactly it. Unifi have a special page in their docs for dealing with Sonos. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/18930473041047-Best-Practices-for-Sonos-Devices https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/18930473041047-Best-Pr... I ended up connecting everything with a wired connection and disabling WiFi. Thankfully I have cat6 to every room so it wasn't an inconvenience. It's worked perfectly since.