API Guide

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Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer................................................................................................486
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.................................................................................................... 486
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source................................................................................................487
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source...............................................................................................487
Logging Changes in Peership States......................................................................................................................... 488
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................488
Clearing Peer Statistics................................................................................................................................................. 488
Debugging MSDP............................................................................................................................................................489
MSDP with Anycast RP.................................................................................................................................................489
Configuring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................ 490
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding........................................................................................................491
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages.............................................................................................491
MSDP Sample Configurations......................................................................................................................................493
Chapter 30: Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol....................................................................496
MLD timers.......................................................................................................................................................................499
Reducing Host Response Burstiness....................................................................................................................499
Configuring MLD Version..............................................................................................................................................500
Clearing MLD groups..................................................................................................................................................... 500
Debugging MLD...............................................................................................................................................................500
Explicit Tracking..............................................................................................................................................................500
Reducing Leave Latency...............................................................................................................................................500
Displaying MLD groups table........................................................................................................................................ 501
Displaying MLD Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................501
Chapter 31: Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)............................................................... 502
Spanning Tree Variations..............................................................................................................................................503
Implementation Information................................................................................................................................... 503
Configure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol............................................................................................................. 503
Related Configuration Tasks.................................................................................................................................. 503
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally.................................................................................................................... 504
Adding and Removing Interfaces................................................................................................................................ 504
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances..............................................................................................................504
Influencing MSTP Root Selection...............................................................................................................................505
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges............................................................................................................................506
Changing the Region Name or Revision....................................................................................................................506
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................506
Modifying the Interface Parameters.......................................................................................................................... 507
Setting STP path cost as constant............................................................................................................................ 508
Configuring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 509
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change.................................................................................................... 509
MSTP Sample Configurations......................................................................................................................................509
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Configurations.......................................................................................................513
Chapter 32: Multicast Features..................................................................................................515
Enabling IP Multicast...................................................................................................................................................... 515
Implementation Information.......................................................................................................................................... 515
Multicast Policies.............................................................................................................................................................516
IPv4 Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................. 516
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