Deployment Guide
Example of Conguring MSDP
Example of Viewing Peer Information
R3_E600(conf)#ip multicast-msdp
R3_E600(conf)#ip msdp peer 192.168.0.1 connect-source Loopback 0
R3_E600(conf)#do show ip msdp summary
Peer Addr Local Addr State Source SA Up/Down Description
192.168.0.1 192.168.0.3 Established Lo 0 1 00:05:29
To view details about a peer, use the show ip msdp peer command in EXEC privilege mode.
Multicast sources in remote domains are stored on the RP in the source-active cache (SA cache). The system does not create entries in
the multicast routing table until there is a local receiver for the corresponding multicast group.
R3_E600#show ip msdp peer
Peer Addr: 192.168.0.1
Local Addr: 192.168.0.3(639) Connect Source: Lo 0
State: Established Up/Down Time: 00:15:20
Timers: KeepAlive 30 sec, Hold time 75 sec
SourceActive packet count (in/out): 8/0
SAs learned from this peer: 1
SA Filtering:
Input (S,G) filter: none
Output (S,G) filter: none
Manage the Source-Active Cache
Each SA-originating RP caches the sources inside its domain (domain-local), and the sources which it has learned from its peers (domain-
remote).
By caching sources:
• domain-local receivers experience a lower join latency
• RPs can transmit SA messages periodically to prevent SA storms
• only sources that are in the cache are advertised in the SA to prevent transmitting multiple copies of the same source information
Viewing the Source-Active Cache
To view the source-active cache, use the following command.
• View the SA cache.
EXEC Privilege mode
show ip msdp sa-cache
Example of the show ip msdp sa-cache Command
R3_E600#show ip msdp sa-cache
MSDP Source-Active Cache - 1 entries
GroupAddr SourceAddr RPAddr LearnedFrom Expire UpTime
239.0.0.1 10.11.4.2 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 76 00:10:44
Limiting the Source-Active Cache
Set the upper limit of the number of active sources that the Dell Networking operating system caches.
The default active source limit is 500K messages. When the total number of active sources reaches the specied limit, subsequent active
sources are dropped even if they pass the reverse path forwarding (RPF) and policy check.
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
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