Administrator Guide

Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer................................................................................................ 487
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.....................................................................................................487
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source................................................................................................488
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source.............................................................................................. 488
Logging Changes in Peership States......................................................................................................................... 489
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................489
Clearing Peer Statistics................................................................................................................................................. 489
Debugging MSDP............................................................................................................................................................490
MSDP with Anycast RP.................................................................................................................................................490
Configuring Anycast RP.................................................................................................................................................491
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding....................................................................................................... 492
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages............................................................................................ 492
MSDP Sample Configurations......................................................................................................................................494
Chapter 30: Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol.................................................................... 497
MLD timers.......................................................................................................................................................................500
Reducing Host Response Burstiness................................................................................................................... 500
Configuring MLD Version...............................................................................................................................................501
Clearing MLD groups...................................................................................................................................................... 501
Debugging MLD............................................................................................................................................................... 501
Explicit Tracking...............................................................................................................................................................501
Reducing Leave Latency................................................................................................................................................501
Displaying MLD groups table........................................................................................................................................502
Displaying MLD Interfaces............................................................................................................................................502
Chapter 31: Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)............................................................... 503
Spanning Tree Variations..............................................................................................................................................504
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................504
Configure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol............................................................................................................. 504
Related Configuration Tasks.................................................................................................................................. 504
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally.................................................................................................................... 505
Adding and Removing Interfaces................................................................................................................................505
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances..............................................................................................................505
Influencing MSTP Root Selection...............................................................................................................................506
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges............................................................................................................................507
Changing the Region Name or Revision.................................................................................................................... 507
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................507
Modifying the Interface Parameters.......................................................................................................................... 508
Setting STP path cost as constant............................................................................................................................ 509
Configuring an EdgePort............................................................................................................................................... 510
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change..................................................................................................... 510
MSTP Sample Configurations....................................................................................................................................... 511
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Configurations.......................................................................................................514
Chapter 32: Multicast Features..................................................................................................516
Enabling IP Multicast...................................................................................................................................................... 516
Implementation Information.......................................................................................................................................... 516
Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................................. 517
IPv4 Multicast Policies..............................................................................................................................................517
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