Administrator Guide

Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer......................................................................................................465
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source..........................................................................................................465
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source..................................................................................................... 465
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source.................................................................................................... 466
Logging Changes in Peership States.............................................................................................................................. 467
Terminating a Peership.....................................................................................................................................................467
Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................... 467
Debugging MSDP..............................................................................................................................................................468
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................... 468
Configuring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................... 469
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding............................................................................................................ 470
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages..................................................................................................470
MSDP Sample Configurations......................................................................................................................................... 472
30 Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol...................................................................................... 475
MLD timers.........................................................................................................................................................................478
Reducing Host Response Burstiness........................................................................................................................ 478
Configuring MLD Version................................................................................................................................................. 478
Clearing MLD groups........................................................................................................................................................ 479
Debugging MLD.................................................................................................................................................................479
Explicit Tracking.................................................................................................................................................................479
Reducing Leave Latency.................................................................................................................................................. 479
Displaying MLD groups table............................................................................................................................................479
Displaying MLD Interfaces............................................................................................................................................... 480
31 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)...................................................................................481
Spanning Tree Variations................................................................................................................................................. 482
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................... 482
Configure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol...................................................................................................................482
Related Configuration Tasks......................................................................................................................................482
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally..........................................................................................................................483
Adding and Removing Interfaces.................................................................................................................................... 483
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................... 483
Influencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................... 484
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges................................................................................................................................ 485
Changing the Region Name or Revision.........................................................................................................................485
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................... 485
Modifying the Interface Parameters...............................................................................................................................486
Setting STP path cost as constant.................................................................................................................................487
Configuring an EdgePort..................................................................................................................................................487
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change.......................................................................................................... 488
MSTP Sample Configurations......................................................................................................................................... 488
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Configurations............................................................................................................492
32 Multicast Features..................................................................................................................494
Enabling IP Multicast........................................................................................................................................................ 494
Implementation Information.............................................................................................................................................494
Multicast Policies...............................................................................................................................................................495
IPv4 Multicast Policies................................................................................................................................................495
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