Operation Manual – Multicast
H3C S5500-EI Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 7 PIM Configuration
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z
Bootstrap timeout time
z
An ACL rule defining a legal C-RP address range and the range of multicast
groups to be served
z
C-RP-Adv interval
z
C-RP timeout time
z
The IP address of a static RP
z
An ACL rule for register message filtering
z
Register suppression timeout time
z
Probe time
z
ACL rules and ACL order for disabling RPT-to-SPT switchover
7.3.3 Enabling PIM-SM
With PIM-SM enabled, a router sends hello messages periodically to discover PIM
neighbors and processes messages from PIM neighbors. When deploying a PIM-SM
domain, you are recommended to enable PIM-SM on all interfaces of non-border
routers (border routers are PIM-enabled routers located on the boundary of BSR
admin-scope regions).
Follow these steps to enable PIM-SM:
To do...
Use the command...
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
—
Enable IP multicast
routing
multicast
routing-enable
Required
Disable by default
Enter interface view
interface interface-type
interface-number
—
Enable PIM-SM
pim sm
Required
Disabled by default
Caution:
All the interfaces of the same router must work in the same PIM mode.