Manage The Source-Active Cache; Viewing The Source-Active Cache; Limiting The Source-Active Cache - Dell Force10 Z9000 Configuration Manual

Peer Addr Local Addr
Description
To view details about a peer, use the show ip msdp peer command in EXEC privilege mode.
Multicast sources in remote domains are stored on the RP in the source-active cache (SA cache). The system does not create
entries in the multicast routing table until there is a local receiver for the corresponding multicast group.
R3_E600#show ip msdp peer
Peer Addr: 192.168.0.1
Local Addr: 192.168.0.3(639) Connect Source: Lo 0
State: Established Up/Down Time: 00:15:20
Timers: KeepAlive 30 sec, Hold time 75 sec
SourceActive packet count (in/out): 8/0
SAs learned from this peer: 1
SA Filtering:
Input (S,G) filter: none
Output (S,G) filter: none

Manage the Source-Active Cache

Each SA-originating RP caches the sources inside its domain (domain-local), and the sources which it has learned from its peers
(domain-remote).
By caching sources:
• domain-local receivers experience a lower join latency
• RPs can transmit SA messages periodically to prevent SA storms
• only sources that are in the cache are advertised in the SA to prevent transmitting multiple copies of the same source
information

Viewing the Source-Active Cache

To view the source-active cache, use the following command.
• View the SA cache.
EXEC Privilege mode
show ip msdp sa-cache
Example of the show ip msdp sa-cache Command
R3_E600#show ip msdp sa-cache
MSDP Source-Active Cache - 1 entries
GroupAddr SourceAddr
239.0.0.1 10.11.4.2

Limiting the Source-Active Cache

Set the upper limit of the number of active sources that the Dell Networking OS caches.
The default active source limit is 500K messages. When the total number of active sources reaches the specified limit, subsequent
active sources are dropped even if they pass the reverse path forwarding (RPF) and policy check.
To limit the number of sources that SA cache stores, use the following command.
• Limit the number of sources that can be stored in the SA cache.
EXEC Privilege mode
show ip msdp sa-limit
434
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
State Source
RPAddr LearnedFrom
192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1
SA Up/Down
Expire UpTime
76 00:10:44