Appendix C Switch Port Functionality

IP Multicast Layer 3 Switching

ICMP unreachables are never sent

ICMP mask replies are never sent

IP fast switching is enabled

IP fast switching on the same interface is disabled

IP Flow switching is disabled

IP CEF switching is enabled

IP Fast switching turbo vector

IP Normal CEF switching turbo vector

IP multicast fast switching is enabled

IP multicast distributed fast switching is disabled

IP route-cache flags are Fast, CEF

Router Discovery is disabled

IP output packet accounting is disabled

IP access violation accounting is disabled

TCP/IP header compression is disabled

RTP/IP header compression is disabled

Probe proxy name replies are disabled

Policy routing is disabled

Network address translation is disabled

WCCP Redirect outbound is disabled

WCCP Redirect exclude is disabled

BGP Policy Mapping is disabled

IP multicast multilayer switching is enabled

IP mls switching is enabled

Router#

Verifying the IP Multicast Routing Table

Use the show ip mroute command to verify the IP multicast routing table.

Step 1 Enter the show ip mroute command.

Router# show ip mroute 230.13.13.1

IP Multicast Routing Table

Flags:D - Dense, S - Sparse, s - SSM Group, C - Connected, L - Local,

P - Pruned, R - RP-bit set, F - Register flag, T - SPT-bit set,

J - Join SPT, M - MSDP created entry, X - Proxy Join Timer Running

A - Advertised via MSDP, U - URD, I - Received Source Specific Host

Report

Outgoing interface flags:H - Hardware switched

Timers:Uptime/Expires

Interface state:Interface, Next-Hop or VCD, State/Mode

(*, 230.13.13.1), 00:16:41/00:00:00, RP 10.15.1.20, flags:SJC

Incoming interface:GigabitEthernet4/8, RPF nbr 10.15.1.20 Outgoing interface list:

GigabitEthernet4/9, Forward/Sparse-Dense, 00:16:41/00:00:00, H

(*, 230.13.13.2), 00:16:41/00:00:00, RP 10.15.1.20, flags:SJC Incoming interface:GigabitEthernet4/8, RPF nbr 10.15.1.20, RPF-MFD

Outgoing interface list:

GigabitEthernet4/9, Forward/Sparse-Dense, 00:16:41/00:00:00, H

(10.20.1.15, 230.13.13.1), 00:14:31/00:01:40, flags:CJT

Incoming interface:GigabitEthernet4/8, RPF nbr 10.15.1.20, RPF-MFD Outgoing interface list:

GigabitEthernet4/9, Forward/Sparse-Dense, 00:14:31/00:00:00, H

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3200 specifications

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