Protocols And Standards; Msdp Configuration Task List; Configuring Basic Functions Of Msdp; Configuration Prerequisites - HP A5500 SI Switch Series Configuration Manual

A multicast router that runs multiple MSDP instances maintains an independent set of MSDP mechanism
for each instance that it supports, including SA cache, peering connection, timers, sending cache, and
cache for exchanging information with PIM, but these instances are isolated from one another.
Interoperability between MSDP and PIM-SM is available only within the same instance.

Protocols and standards

RFC 3618, Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
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RFC 3446, Anycast Rendezvous Point (RP) mechanism using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
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and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)

MSDP configuration task list

Complete these tasks to configure MSDP:
Task
Configuring basic functions
of MSDP
Configuring an MSDP peer
connection
Configuring SA messages
related parameters

Configuring basic functions of MSDP

NOTE:
All the configuration tasks should be carried out on RPs in PIM-SM domains, and each of these RPs acts
as an MSDP peer.

Configuration prerequisites

Before you configure the basic functions of MSDP, complete the following tasks:
Configure any unicast routing protocol so that all devices in the domain are interoperable at the
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network layer
Configure PIM-SM to enable intra-domain multicast forwarding
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Determine the IP addresses of MSDP peers
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Determine the address prefix list for an RP address filtering policy
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Enabling MSDP
Creating an MSDP peer connection
Configuring a static RPF peer
Configuring MSDP peer description
Configuring an MSDP mesh group
Configuring MSDP peer connection control
Configuring SA message content
Configuring SA request messages
Configuring SA message filtering rules
Configuring the SA cache mechanism
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