Concept Guide

Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer...................................................................................................533
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.......................................................................................................533
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source.................................................................................................. 534
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source..................................................................................................534
Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................535
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................535
Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................536
Debugging MSDP..........................................................................................................................................................536
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................537
Conguring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................538
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding.........................................................................................................539
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages.............................................................................................. 539
MSDP Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................... 541
33 Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol..................................................................................................... 544
MLD Version 1................................................................................................................................................................ 544
MLD Querier Router......................................................................................................................................................544
Joining a Multicast Group.............................................................................................................................................545
Leaving a Multicast Group............................................................................................................................................545
MLD version 2................................................................................................................................................................545
MLD timers.....................................................................................................................................................................547
Reducing Host Response Burstiness.................................................................................................................... 548
Conguring MLD Version..............................................................................................................................................548
Clearing MLD groups.....................................................................................................................................................548
Debugging MLD.............................................................................................................................................................548
Explicit Tracking............................................................................................................................................................. 548
Reducing Leave Latency...............................................................................................................................................549
Displaying MLD groups table........................................................................................................................................549
Displaying MLD Interfaces............................................................................................................................................549
31 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP).................................................................................................550
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................550
Spanning Tree Variations............................................................................................................................................... 551
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 551
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol.................................................................................................................551
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................552
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally...................................................................................................................... 552
Adding and Removing Interfaces.................................................................................................................................552
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 553
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................554
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges.............................................................................................................................554
Changing the Region Name or Revision.....................................................................................................................555
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................555
Modifying the Interface Parameters........................................................................................................................... 556
Setting STP path cost as constant............................................................................................................................. 557
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 558
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