originator router moves to a blocking state, and an mroute in this state does not expire either. In both cases
the mroute is only removed by the system when it is no longer needed and so the displayed value for expire
time in these situations is not meaningful.
For an mroute on an originator router whose flow is no longer active - including mroutes on non-originators
whose flow has been pruned — expire time indicates when the mroute entry will eventually be cleared.
Multicast Routing Protocol
Identifies the multicast routing protocol through which the current flow was learned.
Unicast Routing Protocol
Identifies the IP routing protocol through which the routing switch learned the upstream interface for the
current multicast flow. The listed protocol will be one of the following:
• RIP
• connected
• OSPF
• static route
• other
Metric
Indicates the path cost upstream to the multicast source. Used when multiple multicast routers contend to
determine the best path to the multicast source. The lower the value, the better the path.
Metric Pref
Used when multiple multicast routers contend to determine the path to the multicast source. When this value
differs between routers, PIM selects the router with the lowest value. If Metric Pref is the same between
contending multicast routers, then PIM selects the router with the lowest Metric value to provide the path for
the specified multicast traffic. (Different vendors assign differing values for this setting.)
Asset Timer
The time remaining until the router ceases to wait for a response from another multicast router to negotiate
the best path back to the multicast source. If this timer expires without a response from any contending
multicast routers, then the router assumes it is the best path, and the specified multicast group traffic will flow
through the router.
RP Tree
This field is not relevant to PIM-DM and will always display No.
Downstream interfaces
For each downstream interface the following information is shown:
[VLAN]
Lists the
[VID]
of the VLAN that the routing switch is using to send the outbound packets of the current multicast flow to the
next-hop router.
[state]
Indicates whether the outbound VLAN and next-hop router for the current multicast flow are receiving
datagrams.
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