Cisco Systems 3750E Configuring Msdp, Default Msdp Configuration, Configuring a Default Msdp Peer

Chapter 43 Configuring MSDP

Configuring MSDP

Configuring MSDP

These sections contain this configuration information:

•Default MSDP Configuration, page 43-4

•Configuring a Default MSDP Peer, page 43-4(required)

•Caching Source-Active State, page 43-6(optional)

•Requesting Source Information from an MSDP Peer, page 43-8(optional)

•Controlling Source Information that Your Switch Originates, page 43-9(optional)

•Controlling Source Information that Your Switch Forwards, page 43-12(optional)

•Controlling Source Information that Your Switch Receives, page 43-14(optional)

•Configuring an MSDP Mesh Group, page 43-16(optional)

•Shutting Down an MSDP Peer, page 43-16(optional)

•Including a Bordering PIM Dense-Mode Region in MSDP, page 43-17(optional)

•Configuring an Originating Address other than the RP Address, page 43-18(optional)

Default MSDP Configuration

MSDP is not enabled, and no default MSDP peer exists.

Configuring a Default MSDP Peer

In this software release, because BGP and MBGP are not supported, you cannot configure an MSDP peer on the local switch by using the ip msdp peer global configuration command. Instead, you define a default MSDP peer (by using the ip msdp default-peerglobal configuration command) from which to accept all SA messages for the switch. The default MSDP peer must be a previously configured MSDP peer. Configure a default MSDP peer when the switch is not BGP- or MBGP-peering with an MSDP peer. If a single MSDP peer is configured, the switch always accepts all SA messages from that peer.

Figure 43-2shows a network in which default MSDP peers might be used. In Figure 43-2, a customer who owns Switch B is connected to the Internet through two Internet service providers (ISPs), one owning Router A and the other owning Router C. They are not running BGP or MBGP between them. To learn about sources in the ISP’s domain or in other domains, Switch B at the customer site identifies Router A as its default MSDP peer. Switch B advertises SA messages to both Router A and Router C but accepts SA messages only from Router A or only from Router C. If Router A is first in the configuration file, it is used if it is running. If Router A is not running, only then does Switch B accept SA messages from Router C. This is the default behavior without a prefix list.

If you specify a prefix list, the peer is a default peer only for the prefixes in the list. You can have multiple active default peers when you have a prefix list associated with each. When you do not have any prefix lists, you can configure multiple default peers, but only the first one is the active default peer as long as the router has connectivity to this peer and the peer is alive. If the first configured peer fails or the connectivity to this peer fails, the second configured peer becomes the active default, and so on.

The ISP probably uses a prefix list to define which prefixes it accepts from the customer’s router.

Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E Switch Software Configuration Guide

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