Enabling state-refresh capability, Configuring state-refresh parameters – H3C Technologies H3C SecPath F1000-E User Manual

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Step

Command

Remarks

1.

Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2.

Enable IP multicast routing.

multicast routing-enable

Disable by default

3.

Enter interface view.

interface interface-type
interface-number

N/A

4.

Enable PIM-DM.

pim dm

Disabled by default

CAUTION:

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

For more information about the multicast routing-enable command, see Network Management

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 can have the state-refresh capability only if the
state-refresh capability is enabled on all PIM routers on the subnet.
To enable the state-refresh capability:

Step

Command

Remarks

1.

Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2.

Enter interface view.

interface interface-type
interface-number

N/A

3.

Enable the state-refresh capability. pim state-refresh-capable

Optional.
Enabled by default.

Configuring state-refresh parameters

The router directly connected with the multicast source periodically sends state-refresh messages. You can

configure the interval for sending such messages.
A router might receive multiple state-refresh messages within a short time, of which some might be

duplicated messages. To keep a router from receiving such duplicated messages, you can configure the
time that the router must wait before it receives next state-refresh message. If the router receives a new

state-refresh message within the waiting time, it discards the message. If this timer times out, the router

will accept a new state-refresh message, refresh its own PIM-DM state, and reset the waiting timer.
The TTL value of a state-refresh message decrements by 1 whenever it passes a router before it is
forwarded to the downstream node until the TTL value comes down to 0. In a small network, a

state-refresh message might cycle in the network. To effectively control the propagation scope of

state-refresh messages, configure an appropriate TTL value based on the network size.
Perform the following configurations on all routers in the PIM domain.
To configure state-refresh parameters:

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