Deployment Guide

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Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check.................................................................................. 567
Specifying Source-Active Messages...........................................................................................................................571
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer................................................................................................ 572
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.................................................................................................... 572
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source................................................................................................573
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source...............................................................................................573
Logging Changes in Peership States..........................................................................................................................574
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................574
Clearing Peer Statistics................................................................................................................................................. 574
Debugging MSDP............................................................................................................................................................575
MSDP with Anycast RP.................................................................................................................................................575
Configuring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................ 576
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding....................................................................................................... 577
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages............................................................................................ 577
MSDP Sample Configurations......................................................................................................................................579
Chapter 32: Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)............................................................... 584
Spanning Tree Variations.............................................................................................................................................. 585
Implementation Information................................................................................................................................... 585
Configure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol............................................................................................................. 585
Related Configuration Tasks.................................................................................................................................. 585
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally.................................................................................................................... 586
Adding and Removing Interfaces................................................................................................................................ 586
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances..............................................................................................................586
Influencing MSTP Root Selection............................................................................................................................... 587
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges............................................................................................................................588
Changing the Region Name or Revision....................................................................................................................588
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................588
Modifying the Interface Parameters.......................................................................................................................... 589
Configuring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 590
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change..................................................................................................... 591
MSTP Sample Configurations.......................................................................................................................................591
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Configurations......................................................................................................594
Chapter 33: Multicast Features................................................................................................. 596
Enabling IP Multicast..................................................................................................................................................... 596
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 596
First Packet Forwarding for Lossless Multicast...................................................................................................... 597
Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................................ 597
IPv4 Multicast Policies.............................................................................................................................................597
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace)....................................................................................................... 603
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................ 604
Supported Error Codes................................................................................................................................................. 605
mtrace Scenarios............................................................................................................................................................ 606
Chapter 34: Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol.................................................................... 612
MLD timers........................................................................................................................................................................615
Reducing Host Response Burstiness.................................................................................................................... 615
Configuring MLD Version...............................................................................................................................................616
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