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Reducing Host Response Burstiness....................................................................................................................575
Configuring MLD Version.............................................................................................................................................. 576
Clearing MLD groups......................................................................................................................................................576
Debugging MLD...............................................................................................................................................................576
Explicit Tracking.............................................................................................................................................................. 576
Reducing Leave Latency............................................................................................................................................... 576
Displaying MLD groups table........................................................................................................................................ 577
Displaying MLD Interfaces............................................................................................................................................ 577
Chapter 34: Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)............................................................... 578
Spanning Tree Variations.............................................................................................................................................. 579
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................579
Configure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol............................................................................................................. 579
Related Configuration Tasks.................................................................................................................................. 579
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally.................................................................................................................... 580
Adding and Removing Interfaces................................................................................................................................ 580
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances..............................................................................................................580
Influencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................581
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges............................................................................................................................582
Changing the Region Name or Revision....................................................................................................................582
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................582
Modifying the Interface Parameters.......................................................................................................................... 583
Setting STP path cost as constant............................................................................................................................ 584
Configuring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 585
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change.................................................................................................... 585
MSTP Sample Configurations......................................................................................................................................585
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Configurations......................................................................................................589
Chapter 35: Multicast Features..................................................................................................591
Enabling IP Multicast...................................................................................................................................................... 591
Implementation Information.......................................................................................................................................... 591
Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................................ 592
IPv4 Multicast Policies.............................................................................................................................................592
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace)....................................................................................................... 598
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................ 598
Supported Error Codes................................................................................................................................................. 600
mtrace Scenarios.............................................................................................................................................................601
Chapter 36: Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol.................................................................... 607
MLD timers........................................................................................................................................................................610
Reducing Host Response Burstiness.................................................................................................................... 610
Clearing MLD groups....................................................................................................................................................... 611
Debugging MLD................................................................................................................................................................ 611
Explicit Tracking................................................................................................................................................................611
Reducing Leave Latency.................................................................................................................................................611
Displaying MLD groups table......................................................................................................................................... 611
Displaying MLD Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................612
MLD Snooping.................................................................................................................................................................. 612
Enable MLD Snooping...............................................................................................................................................612
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