MBR (Multicast Border Router)
Intro Enabling PIM MBR on an interface (where we don’t have an upstream PIM neighbor) will allow multicast traffic from remote sources that are outside of our PIM domain to be treated as locally connected sources. We typically see this scenario when we are receiving multicast feeds from a remote Exchange and a PIM neighbourship is not established on our upstream links. In the current PIM implementation (EOS 4.14.0F and later) EOS will drop multicast traffic that is not considered to be locally connected by default and we need to configure MBR to allow this multicast data. In the interfaces...
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show ip mfib output – “notify”
Hi, can anyone tell me what “notify” means in the following output, does it relate to MSDP? (note MSDP not running on the device): sh ip mfib g.g.g.gActivity poll time: 60 secondsg.g.g.g s.s.s.s Vlan256 (iif) Vlan152 (notify) Vlan251 Activity 0:17:20 agog.g.g.g 0.0.0.0/0 Vlan256 (iif) Vlan251
VXLAN to VLAN trunk port – multiple multicast-groups?
Hello everybody, I have configured the following VXLAN networks using VMware vShield which should be mapped to VLANs on a virtual Arista Switch (vEOS 4.15.OF): VNI5000 / Multicast 225.1.1.1 / Map to VLAN 500 VNI5001 / Multicast 225.1.1.2 / Map to VLAN 501 VNI5002 / Multicast 225.1.1.3 / Map to VLAN 503 But on the interface vxlan 1, I can only set one multicast-group on the interface vxlan 1. Is there the possibility to set multiple multicast-group on this interface (one multicast-group per VNI)? I also cannot create more than one VXLAN interface – is this a general limitation or...
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Layer 3 Leaf-Spine – Rendezvous Point Placement?
Hello everybody, I have configured a leaf-spine architecture (4 leafs, 2 spines), see attached image. L3 routing is enabled on leafs and spines and eBGP is used between them. To enable VXLAN (from VMware Hosts), multicast needs to be configured. So far, ip multicast-routing and ip pim sparse-mode is set. Where do I configure the rendezvous point (RP) and which method would I use? I would prefer to place it on the spine switches using anycast-rp, but one spine switches does not reach the other spine switch (as the route to spine1 is not announced to spine2 by the leafs...
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