Administrator Guide

MLD timers.........................................................................................................................................................................547
Reducing Host Response Burstiness........................................................................................................................ 547
Configuring MLD Version................................................................................................................................................. 547
Clearing MLD groups........................................................................................................................................................ 548
Debugging MLD.................................................................................................................................................................548
Explicit Tracking................................................................................................................................................................ 548
Reducing Leave Latency..................................................................................................................................................548
Displaying MLD groups table........................................................................................................................................... 548
Displaying MLD Interfaces............................................................................................................................................... 549
34 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)................................................................................. 550
Spanning Tree Variations..................................................................................................................................................551
Implementation Information........................................................................................................................................551
Configure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................... 551
Related Configuration Tasks.......................................................................................................................................551
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally......................................................................................................................... 552
Adding and Removing Interfaces.................................................................................................................................... 552
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances...................................................................................................................552
Influencing MSTP Root Selection...................................................................................................................................553
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges................................................................................................................................ 554
Changing the Region Name or Revision.........................................................................................................................554
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................... 554
Modifying the Interface Parameters.............................................................................................................................. 555
Setting STP path cost as constant................................................................................................................................ 556
Configuring an EdgePort..................................................................................................................................................556
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change.......................................................................................................... 557
MSTP Sample Configurations......................................................................................................................................... 557
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Configurations............................................................................................................ 561
35 Multicast Features..................................................................................................................563
Enabling IP Multicast........................................................................................................................................................ 563
Implementation Information.............................................................................................................................................563
Multicast Policies...............................................................................................................................................................564
IPv4 Multicast Policies................................................................................................................................................564
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace)............................................................................................................. 570
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths..............................................................................................................570
Supported Error Codes.....................................................................................................................................................572
mtrace Scenarios...............................................................................................................................................................572
36 Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol...................................................................................... 578
MLD timers......................................................................................................................................................................... 581
Reducing Host Response Burstiness.........................................................................................................................581
Clearing MLD groups.........................................................................................................................................................581
Debugging MLD.................................................................................................................................................................582
Explicit Tracking................................................................................................................................................................ 582
Reducing Leave Latency..................................................................................................................................................582
Displaying MLD groups table........................................................................................................................................... 582
Displaying MLD Interfaces............................................................................................................................................... 582
MLD Snooping...................................................................................................................................................................583
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