Urgent Feature Request: RSTP

I do get your point, you don’t want Wi-Fi in your TV room.

If you correctly configure your network switches you can achieve this, whilst you wait for Sonos to make the ‘urgent’ feature request you have asked for.

Followed every procedure I could find to “correctly configure” my netwrok (as you say) and I’m here to tell you that they simply don’t work. 

I’m not saying that Sonos are bad produts, but that in this case - based on my (and not just my experience), the workaround is not working anymore. Simply it gets your network to crash down very badly.

So, please, could we just try not to ignore it, just by implying it’s user’s fault? Sonos already had a rough year by doing that.

​@NightSkyWalker, STP is critical only for the SonosNet. As SonosNet is being phased out, it is currently unrealistic to wait for Sonos to upgrade to RSTP; unless Sonos decides to develop SonosNet 3.0 after all.

I believe STP and RSTP are provided by the Linux kernel. If this is correct for Sonos then implementing it may require a move to a newer kernel. We saw that with the SMB protocol issues. I haven't dug into the Sonos open-source pages in years but that is where one should probably start If they wish to identify the magnitude of the problem.

Not supported by the current kernel is a big issue.

Supported but not enabled is much less of a problem.

Seeing Sonos on a current, Long Term Supported kernel would be great, for users and Sonos core developers. 

Thank you. If this is the case, probably the feature request would be: give us an option to disable SonosNet alltogheter, since there is no need in a WiFi covered room.

That said, hope they will still support and develop SonosNet devices...

Early SONOS units reportedly don’t have enough RAM to support a kernel capable of running SMBv2. It might be similar for RSTP.  At some point SONOS may be able to include RSTP for the newer units.

That makes the option to disable Sonosnet activation when. Ethernet is connected look like a good alternative.

​@NightSkyWalker, Turn off the WiFi module on each wired Sonos unit.

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/disable-or-enable-wi-fi-on-your-sonos-products

Thank you for the hint. Unfortunatelly this also doesn’t work (anymore). My setup was already like that: no WiFi for wired units (the one composing the home theatre). This doesn’t work anymore, and since month now I’m constantly having ports blocked due to STP problems on wifi-less units. 

As you can see, Unifi is quite clear right now on Sonos: Best Practices for Sonos Devices – Ubiquiti Help Center (either all wired or all wireless).

I bet Sonos Beam 2, Sonos Mini Sub and Sonos One could not be considered “old”. (Beam rev2 and mini Sub are even still produced).