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Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................568
Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................569
Debugging MSDP..........................................................................................................................................................569
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................570
Conguring Anycast RP.................................................................................................................................................571
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding.........................................................................................................572
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages.............................................................................................. 572
MSDP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................574
31 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)................................................................................................. 577
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 577
Spanning Tree Variations...............................................................................................................................................578
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................578
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................ 578
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 579
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally.......................................................................................................................579
Adding and Removing Interfaces.................................................................................................................................579
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 580
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................580
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges..............................................................................................................................581
Changing the Region Name or Revision......................................................................................................................581
Modifying Global Parameters....................................................................................................................................... 582
Modifying the Interface Parameters........................................................................................................................... 583
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 584
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change....................................................................................................... 585
MSTP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................585
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration.......................................................................................585
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations.........................................................................................................587
32 Multicast Features...................................................................................................................................589
Enabling IP Multicast.....................................................................................................................................................589
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 589
Multicast Policies...........................................................................................................................................................590
IPv4 Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................590
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace)...........................................................................................................597
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 598
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................... 598
Supported Error Codes.................................................................................................................................................599
mtrace Scenarios...........................................................................................................................................................600
33 Object Tracking....................................................................................................................................... 606
Object Tracking Overview............................................................................................................................................ 606
Track Layer 2 Interfaces..........................................................................................................................................607
Track Layer 3 Interfaces..........................................................................................................................................607
Track IPv4 and IPv6 Routes...................................................................................................................................608
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