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Chapter 29: Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol.................................................................... 537
MLD timers.......................................................................................................................................................................540
Reducing Host Response Burstiness................................................................................................................... 540
Configuring MLD Version...............................................................................................................................................541
Clearing MLD groups...................................................................................................................................................... 541
Debugging MLD................................................................................................................................................................541
Explicit Tracking...............................................................................................................................................................541
Reducing Leave Latency................................................................................................................................................541
Displaying MLD groups table........................................................................................................................................542
Displaying MLD Interfaces............................................................................................................................................ 542
Chapter 30: Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)............................................................... 543
Spanning Tree Variations.............................................................................................................................................. 544
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................544
Configure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol............................................................................................................. 544
Related Configuration Tasks.................................................................................................................................. 544
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally.................................................................................................................... 545
Adding and Removing Interfaces................................................................................................................................ 545
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances..............................................................................................................545
Influencing MSTP Root Selection............................................................................................................................... 547
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges............................................................................................................................547
Changing the Region Name or Revision.................................................................................................................... 547
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................548
Modifying the Interface Parameters.......................................................................................................................... 549
Setting STP path cost as constant............................................................................................................................ 550
Configuring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 550
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change..................................................................................................... 551
MSTP Sample Configurations...................................................................................................................................... 551
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Configurations......................................................................................................555
Chapter 31: Multicast Features..................................................................................................557
Enabling IP Multicast......................................................................................................................................................557
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 557
Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................................ 558
IPv4 Multicast Policies.............................................................................................................................................558
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace)....................................................................................................... 565
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................565
Supported Error Codes..................................................................................................................................................567
mtrace Scenarios............................................................................................................................................................ 568
Chapter 32: Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol.................................................................... 574
MLD timers....................................................................................................................................................................... 577
Reducing Host Response Burstiness....................................................................................................................577
Clearing MLD groups......................................................................................................................................................578
Debugging MLD...............................................................................................................................................................578
Explicit Tracking.............................................................................................................................................................. 578
Reducing Leave Latency............................................................................................................................................... 578
Displaying MLD groups table........................................................................................................................................578
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