Label Switched Multicast – Q&A
This post is the last one I’m planning in this series on Label Switched Multicast (LSM). The questions & answers below are meant to expand on topics from the previous posts or address topics that weren’t mentioned in the previous posts at all.
If you’re not familiar with LSM yet then this Q&A likely won’t make much sense to you and I recommend you go back and read through the previous posts.
Please post a comment if one of the answers isn’t clear or you have additional questions!
How can the mapping between a (*,G) or (S,G) and a Multicast Distribution Tree be found?
If you have a (*,G) or an (S,G), the following commands will show you which MDT is being used through the MPLS core. I find the easiest place in the network to check the mapping between a (*,G) or (S,G) and an MDT is on the Ingress PE. Two tables hold the mapping:
1 – the MFIB:
PE1#show ip mfib vrf BLUE 239.3.3.3
[...]
VRF BLUE
(*,239.3.3.3) Flags: C
SW Forwarding: 0/0/0/0, Other: 0/0/0
Tunnel0 Flags: A
Lspvif0, LSM/2 Flags: F NS
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