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Chapter24 Configuring IP Multicast Routi ng Configuring Advanced DVMRP Interoperability Features
Controlling Route Exchanges
This section describes how to tune the Cisco device adver tise ment s of DV MRP ro ute s. It c on tains thi s
configuration information:
Limiting the Number of DVMRP Routes Advertised, page 24-53
Changing the DVMRP Route Threshold, page 24-54
Configuring a DVMRP Summary Address, page 24-54
Disabling DVMRP Autosummarization, page 24-56
Adding a Metric Offset to the DVMRP Route, page 24-56

Limiting the Number of DVMRP Routes Advertised

By default, only 7000 DVMRP routes are advertised over an interface enabled to run DVMRP (that is,
a DVMRP tunnel, an interface where a DVMRP neighbor has been discovered, or an interface
configured to run the ip dvmrp unicast-routing interface configuration command).
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to change the DVMRP route limit:
To configure no route limit, use the no ip dvmrp route-limit global configuration command.
Command Purpose
Step1 configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.
Step2 ip dvmrp route-limit count Change the number of DVMRP routes advertised over an interface
enabled for DVMRP.
This command prevents misconfigured ip dvmrp metric interface
configuration commands from causing massive route injection into the
MBONE.
By default, 7000 routes are advertised. The range is 0 to 4294967295.
Step3 end Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Step4 show running-config Verify your entries.
Step5 copy running-config startup-config (Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.