Enabling state-refresh capability – H3C Technologies H3C S7500E Series Switches User Manual

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To do...

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Description

Enter system view

system-view

Create a VPN instance and

enter VPN instance view

ip vpn-instance

vpn-instance-name

Configure a route-distinguisher

(RD) for the VPN instance

route-distinguisher

route-distinguisher

Required

Not configured by default

Enable IP multicast routing

multicast routing-enable

Required

Disabled by default

Enter interface view

interface interface-type

interface-number

Associate the current interface

with the VPN instance

ip binding vpn-instance

vpn-instance-name

Required

No VPN instance is associated

with an interface by default.

Enable PIM-DM

pim dm

Required

Disabled by default

z

All the interfaces in the same VPN instance on the same device must work in the same PIM

mode.

z

PIM-DM does not work with multicast groups in the SSM group grange.

z

For details about the ip vpn-instance, route-distinguisher and ip binding vpn-instance

commands, see MPLS L3VPN Configuration Commands in the MPLS Command

Reference.

z

For details about the multicast routing-enable command, see Multicast Routing and

Forwarding Configuration Commands in the IP Multicast Command Reference.

Enabling State-Refresh Capability

Pruned interfaces resume multicast forwarding when the pruned state times out. To prevent this,

the router with the multicast source attached periodically sends an (S, G) state-refresh

message, which is forwarded hop by hop along the initial multicast flooding path of the PIM-DM

domain, to refresh the prune timer state of all the routers on the path. A multi-access subnet

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