Summary Of Supported Mvpn Profiles - Cisco XR12000 Series Configuration Manual

Implementing Multicast Routing on Cisco IOS XR Software
• By default, encap 1400-byte size c-multicast IP packet is supported. To support decap or encap larger
packet size, mdt mtu command.
• Loopback configuration is required. Use the mdt source loopback0 command. Other loopbacks can
be used for different VRFs, but this is not recommended.
Rules for Rosen-mLDP profiles (profiles- 1,9, 12, 13,17)
• mLDP must be globally enabled.
• VPN-id is mandatory for Rosen-mLDP MP2MP profiles.
• Root node must be specified manually. Multiple root nodes can be configured for Root Node Redundancy.
• If only profile 1 is configured, MVPN must be enabled under bgp.
• For BGP-AD profiles, the remote PE address is required.
Rules for mLDP profiles (profiles- 2,4,5,14,15)
• MVPN must be enabled under bgp, if only profile 2 is configured.
• Support only for static RP for customer RP.
Rules for inband mLDP profiles (profiles- 6,7)
• MVPN must be enabled under bgp for vrf-inband profiles.
• Data MDT is not supported.
• Backbone facing interface (BFI) must be enabled on tail PE.
• Source route of SSM must be advertise to tail PE by iBGP.

Summary of Supported MVPN Profiles

This tables summarizes the supported MVPN profiles:
Profile
Number
0
1
2
3
OL-30405-02
Label Switched Multicast (LSM) Multicast Label Distribution Protocol (mLDP) based Multicast VPN (mVPN) Support
Name Opaque-value
Rosen GRE N/A
Rosen MLDP Type 2 - Root
Address:VPN-ID:0-n
MS- PMSI (Partition) Cisco prioprietary -
MLDP MP2MP Source- PE:RD:0
Rosen GRE with BGP N/A
-AD
Cisco IOS XR Multicast Configuration Guide for the Cisco XR12000 Series Router, Release 5.1.x
BDP-AD Data-MDT
N/A PIM TLVs over
default MDT
N/A PIM TLVs over
default MDT
N/A N/A
PIM or BGP -AD
• Intra-AS MI- PMSI
(knob controlled)
• S- PMSI for
Data-MDT
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