R3721-F3210-F3171-HP High-End Firewalls Network Management Configuration Guide-6PW101

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Verifying the configuration
Log into the Web interface of Firewall C, select Network > Routing Management > PIM from the
navigation tree and click Neighbor Information to enter the page as shown in Figure 340.
Figure 340 PIM neighbor information
Configuring PIM at the CLI
Configuring PIM-DM
PIM-DM configuration task list
Complete these tasks to configure PIM-DM:
Task Remarks
Enabling PIM-DM Required
Enabling state-refresh capability Optional
Configuring state-refresh parameters Optional
Configuring PIM-DM graft retry period Optional
Configuring PIM common features Optional
Configuration prerequisites
Before you configure PIM-DM, complete the following tasks:
Configure any unicast routing protocol so that all devices in the domain are interoperable at the
network layer
Determine the interval between state-refresh messages
Determine the minimum time to wait before receiving a new refresh message
Determine the TTL value of state-refresh messages
Determine the graft retry period
Enabling PIM-DM
With PIM-DM enabled, a router sends hello messages periodically to discover PIM neighbors and
processes messages from the PIM neighbors. When you deploy a PIM-DM domain, enable PIM-DM on
all non-border interfaces of the routers.
To enable PIM-DM globally on the public network: