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Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source................................................................................................. 503
Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................504
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................504
Clearing Peer Statistics................................................................................................................................................ 505
Debugging MSDP..........................................................................................................................................................505
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................506
Conguring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................507
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding........................................................................................................ 508
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages..............................................................................................508
MSDP Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................... 510
30 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)................................................................................................. 513
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................513
Spanning Tree Variations............................................................................................................................................... 514
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 514
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol.................................................................................................................514
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................515
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally....................................................................................................................... 515
Adding and Removing Interfaces..................................................................................................................................515
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances.................................................................................................................516
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection.................................................................................................................................517
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges.............................................................................................................................. 517
Changing the Region Name or Revision......................................................................................................................518
Modifying Global Parameters........................................................................................................................................518
Modifying the Interface Parameters............................................................................................................................ 519
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 520
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change........................................................................................................ 521
MSTP Sample Congurations.......................................................................................................................................521
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration.......................................................................................522
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations........................................................................................................ 525
31 Multicast Features....................................................................................................................................527
Enabling IP Multicast.....................................................................................................................................................527
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................527
Multicast Policies...........................................................................................................................................................528
IPv4 Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................ 528
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace).................................................................................................... 535
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths..................................................................................................... 536
Supported Error Codes........................................................................................................................................... 537
mtrace Scenarios.....................................................................................................................................................538
32 Object Tracking........................................................................................................................................544
Object Tracking Overview............................................................................................................................................ 544
Track Layer 2 Interfaces......................................................................................................................................... 545
Track Layer 3 Interfaces......................................................................................................................................... 545
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