
Operation Manual – Multicast
H3C S5600 Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 5 MSDP Configuration
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To do...
Use the command...
Remarks
Create an MSDP peer
connection
peer peer-address
connect-interface
interface-type
interface-number
Required
No MSDP peer
connection is created by
default.
Configure a static RPF
peer
static-rpf-peer
peer-address
[
rp-policy
ip-prefix-name
]
Optional
No static RFP is
configured by default.
5.3 Configuring Connection Between MSDP Peers
An AS may contain multiple MSDP peers. To avoid SA flooding between the MSDP
peers, you can use the MSDP mesh mechanism to improve traffic. When multiple
MSDP peers are fully connected with one another, these MSDP peers form a mesh
group.
When an MSDP peer in the mesh group receives SA messages from outside the mesh
group, it sends them to other members of the group. On the other hand, a mesh group
member does not perform RPF check on SA messages from within the mesh group and
does not forward the messages to other members of the mesh group. This avoids SA
message flooding since it is unnecessary to run BGP or MBGP between MSDP peers,
thus simplifying the RPF checking mechanism.
The sessions between MSDP peers can be terminated and reactivated sessions as
required. When a session between MSDP peers is terminated, the TCP connection is
closed, and there will be no reconnection attempts. However, the configuration
information is kept.
5.3.1 Configuration Prerequisites
Before configuring an MSDP peer connection, you need to configure:
z
A unicast routing protocol
z
Basic functions of IP multicast
z
PIM-SM basic functions
z
MSDP basic functions
Complete the following tasks to configure an MSDP peer connection:
Task
Remarks
Configuring Description Information for MSDP Peers
Optional
Configuring an MSDP Mesh Group
Optional
Configuring MSDP Peer Connection Control
Optional