
Operation Manual – Multicast Protocol
H3C S3610&S5510 Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 7 MSDP Configuration
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7.4.3 Configuring an MSDP Mesh Group
An AS may contain multiple MSDP peers. You can use the MSDP mesh group
mechanism to avoid SA message flooding among these MSDP peers and optimize the
multicast traffic.
On one hand, an MSDP peer in an MSDP mesh group forwards SA messages from
outside the mesh group that have passed the RPF check to the other members in the
mesh group; on the other hand, a mesh group member accepts SA messages from
inside the group without performing an RPF check, and does not forward the message
within the mesh group either. This mechanism not only avoids SA flooding but also
simplifies the RPF check mechanism, because BGP is not needed to run between
these MSDP peers.
By configuring the same mesh group name for multiple MSDP peers, you can create a
mesh group with these MSDP peers.
Follow these steps to create an MSDP mesh group:
To do...
Use the command...
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
—
Enter MSDP view
msdp
—
Create an MSDP peer as
a mesh group member
peer peer-address
mesh-group
name
Required
An MSDP peer does not
belong to any mesh group
by default
Note:
z
Before grouping multiple routers into an MSDP mesh group, make sure that these
routers are interconnected with one another.
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If you configure more than one mesh group name on an MSDP peer, only the last
configuration is effective.
7.4.4 Configuring MSDP Peer Connection Control
MSDP peers are interconnected over TCP (port number 639). You can flexibly control
sessions between MSDP peers by manually deactivating and reactivating the MSDP
peering connections. When the connection between two MSDP peers is deactivated,
SA messages will no longer be delivered between them, and the TCP connection is
closed without any connection setup retry, but the configuration information will remain
unchanged.