CCIE SP – MSDP

MSDP or Multicast Source Distribution Protocol allows multicast sources for a group to be known to all rendezvous points (RPs) in different domains. Each PIM-SM domain uses its own RP and MSDP connects source based trees to destination trees. MSDP uses TCP as control protocol and you will require end to end multicast routing protocol such as PIM. At boundries (Autonomous systems) we will filter RP announcements from other autonomous systems. Example:

Our example is very simple, two multicast domains with no RPF failure and end-to-end PIM sparse mode between R5 and R6. Multicast source is R7 (sending Ping to multicast group) and R8 as multicast member (IGMP join). R1 is Auto-RP MA and RP for AS135 and R2 is BSR for AS246. R1 and R2 communicate with MSDP language and deliver SA (Source Active) messages to each-others as peers, in this way each RP is infromed about active sources in different domain and can join its memebers to that multicast tree (S,G) to (*,G). To debug MSDP messages we can use “debug ip msdp peer” and “debug ip msdp routes”

 

Multicast path from source to member is:

R7 –> R5 –> R3 -> R1 –> R2 –> R4 –> R6 –> R8

R7#trace 10.10.68.8

  1 10.10.57.5
  2 10.10.35.3
  3 10.10.13.1
  4 10.10.12.2
  5 10.10.24.4
  6 10.10.46.6
  7 10.10.68.8

 

Configuration

R7:

R7#ping       
Protocol [ip]:
Target IP address: 224.69.69.69
Repeat count [1]: 10
Extended commands [n]: y
Interface [All]: ethernet0/0
Source address: 10.10.57.7

Sending 10, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 224.69.69.69, timeout is 2 seconds:
Packet sent with a source address of 10.10.57.7
..

R5:

ip multicast-routing
!
interface Ethernet0/0
ip address 10.10.35.5 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
!
interface Ethernet0/3
ip address 10.10.57.5 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
!
ip pim autorp listener
!

R3:

ip multicast-routing
!
interface FastEthernet0/0
ip address 10.10.35.3 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
!
interface ATM2/0
ip address 10.10.13.3 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
!
ip pim autorp listener
!

R1:

ip multicast-routing
!
interface Loopback0
ip address 10.10.1.1 255.255.255.255
ip pim sparse-mode
!
interface FastEthernet0/0
ip address 10.10.12.1 255.255.255.0
 ip pim bsr-border
ip pim sparse-mode
 ip multicast boundary 1
!
interface ATM2/0
ip address 10.10.13.1 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
!
ip pim autorp listener
ip pim send-rp-announce Loopback0 scope 255
ip pim send-rp-discovery Loopback0 scope 255
ip msdp peer 10.10.12.2 connect-source FastEthernet0/0
!
access-list 1 deny   224.0.1.39
access-list 1 deny   224.0.1.40
access-list 1 permit any
!

R2:

ip multicast-routing
!
interface Loopback0
ip address 10.10.2.2 255.255.255.255
ip pim sparse-mode
!
interface Ethernet0/0
ip address 10.10.12.2 255.255.255.0
 ip pim bsr-border
ip pim sparse-mode
 ip multicast boundary 1
!
interface Serial1/0
ip address 10.10.24.2 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
!
ip pim bsr-candidate Loopback0 0
ip pim rp-candidate Loopback0
ip msdp peer 10.10.12.1 connect-source Ethernet0/0
!
access-list 1 deny   224.0.1.39
access-list 1 deny   224.0.1.40
access-list 1 permit any
!

R4:

ip multicast-routing
!
interface Ethernet0/0
ip address 10.10.46.4 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
!
interface Serial1/0
ip address 10.10.24.4 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
!

R6:

ip multicast-routing
!
interface Ethernet0/0
ip address 10.10.46.6 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
!
interface Ethernet0/3
ip address 10.10.68.6 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
!

R8:

interface Ethernet0/0
ip address 10.10.68.8 255.255.255.0
ip igmp join-group 224.69.69.69
!

 

Verification

At this point, R8 joins multicast tree and R2 is aware of multicast source through MSDP SA messages from R1 and can responses are sent back from R8 to R7:

 

R7#ping       
Protocol [ip]:
Target IP address: 224.69.69.69
Repeat count [1]: 10
Extended commands [n]: y
Interface [All]: ethernet0/0
Source address: 10.10.57.7

Sending 10, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 224.69.69.69, timeout is 2 seconds:
Packet sent with a source address of 10.10.57.7
..
Reply to request 3 from 10.10.68.8
Reply to request 4 from 10.10.68.8
Reply to request 5 from 10.10.68.8
Reply to request 6 from 10.10.68.8
Reply to request 7 from 10.10.68.8
Reply to request 8 from 10.10.68.8
Reply to request 9 from 10.10.68.8

 

R1#sh ip pim rp mapping
PIM Group-to-RP Mappings
This system is an RP (Auto-RP)
This system is an RP-mapping agent (Loopback0)

Group(s) 224.0.0.0/4
  RP 10.10.1.1 (?), v2v1
    Info source: 10.10.1.1 (?), elected via Auto-RP
         Uptime: 17:03:06, expires: 00:02:52

R1#sh ip mroute
IP Multicast Routing Table
Flags: D – Dense, S – Sparse, B – Bidir Group, C – Connected,
       L – Local, P – Pruned, T – SPT-bit set, J – Join SPT,
       M – MSDP created entry,
       A – Candidate for MSDP Advertisement
 

(*, 224.0.1.39), 17:04:10/stopped, RP 0.0.0.0, flags: DCL
  Incoming interface: Null, RPF nbr 0.0.0.0
  Outgoing interface list:
    Loopback0, Forward/Sparse, 17:03:11/00:00:00
    ATM2/0, Forward/Sparse, 17:04:10/00:00:00

(10.10.1.1, 224.0.1.39), 17:04:10/00:02:49, flags: LTA
  Incoming interface: Loopback0, RPF nbr 0.0.0.0
  Outgoing interface list:
    ATM2/0, Forward/Sparse, 17:03:11/00:00:00

(*, 224.0.1.40), 17:06:10/stopped, RP 0.0.0.0, flags: DCL
  Incoming interface: Null, RPF nbr 0.0.0.0
  Outgoing interface list:
    Loopback0, Forward/Sparse, 17:03:11/00:00:00
    ATM2/0, Forward/Sparse, 17:06:10/00:00:00

(10.10.1.1, 224.0.1.40), 17:03:10/00:02:54, flags: LTA
  Incoming interface: Loopback0, RPF nbr 0.0.0.0
  Outgoing interface list:
    ATM2/0, Forward/Sparse, 17:03:11/00:00:00

(*, 224.69.69.69), 00:01:50/stopped, RP 10.10.1.1, flags: SP
  Incoming interface: Null, RPF nbr 0.0.0.0
  Outgoing interface list: Null

(10.10.57.7, 224.69.69.69), 00:01:50/00:01:54, flags: TA
  Incoming interface: ATM2/0, RPF nbr 10.10.13.3
  Outgoing interface list:
    FastEthernet0/0, Forward/Sparse, 00:01:49/00:02:39

R1#sh ip msdp peer
MSDP Peer 10.10.12.2 (?), AS 246
Description:
  Connection status:
    State: Up, Resets: 0,
    Connection source: FastEthernet0/0 (10.10.12.1)
    Uptime(Downtime): 14:14:08, Messages sent/received: 922/854
    Output messages discarded: 0
    Connection and counters cleared 14:16:09 ago
  SA Filtering:
    Input (S,G) filter: none, route-map: none
    Input RP filter: none, route-map: none
    Output (S,G) filter: none, route-map: none
    Output RP filter: none, route-map: none
  SA-Requests:
    Input filter: none
  Peer ttl threshold: 0
  SAs learned from this peer: 0
  Input queue size: 0, Output queue size: 0

R2 Verification

R2#sh ip pim rp mapping
PIM Group-to-RP Mappings
This system is a candidate RP (v2)
This system is the Bootstrap Router (v2)

Group(s) 224.0.0.0/4
  RP 10.10.2.2 (?), v2
    Info source: 10.10.2.2 (?), via bootstrap, priority 0
    holdtime 150      Uptime: 16:13:59, expires: 00:01:27

R2#sh ip msdp summary
MSDP Peer Status Summary
Peer Address     AS    State    Uptime/  Reset SA    Peer Name
                                Downtime Count Count
10.10.12.1       135   Up       14:15:47 0     1     ?

R2#sh ip mroute

(*, 224.0.1.40), 16:22:23/00:02:02, RP 0.0.0.0, flags: DPL
  Incoming interface: Null, RPF nbr 0.0.0.0
  Outgoing interface list: Null

(*, 224.69.69.69), 01:17:15/stopped, RP 10.10.2.2, flags: S
  Incoming interface: Null, RPF nbr 0.0.0.0
  Outgoing interface list:
    Serial1/0, Forward/Sparse, 01:17:15/00:03:03

(10.10.57.7, 224.69.69.69), 00:00:02/00:02:57, flags: M
  Incoming interface: Ethernet0/0, RPF nbr 10.10.12.1
  Outgoing interface list:
    Serial1/0, Forward/Sparse, 00:00:02/00:03:28

 

R6 Verification

R6#sh ip mroute

(*, 224.0.1.40), 16:17:35/00:02:49, RP 0.0.0.0, flags: DCL
  Incoming interface: Null, RPF nbr 0.0.0.0
  Outgoing interface list:
    Ethernet0/0, Forward/Sparse, 16:17:35/00:02:49

(*, 224.69.69.69), 01:13:28/stopped, RP 10.10.2.2, flags: SJC
  Incoming interface: Ethernet0/0, RPF nbr 10.10.46.4
  Outgoing interface list:
    Ethernet0/3, Forward/Sparse, 01:13:28/00:02:30

(10.10.57.7, 224.69.69.69), 00:00:02/00:02:57, flags: JT
  Incoming interface: Ethernet0/0, RPF nbr 10.10.46.4
  Outgoing interface list:
    Ethernet0/3, Forward/Sparse, 00:00:02/00:02:57

R6#sh ip pim rp mapping
PIM Group-to-RP Mappings

Group(s) 224.0.0.0/4
  RP 10.10.2.2 (?), v2
    Info source: 10.10.2.2 (?), via bootstrap, priority 0, holdtime 150
         Uptime: 16:15:26, expires: 00:02:27