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prune timer state of all the routers on the path. A multi-access subnet can have the state-refresh capability 
only if the state-refresh capability is enabled on all IPv6 PIM routers on the subnet. 
To enable the state-refresh capability:  
 
Ste
  Command  Remarks 
1.  Enter system view. 
system-view  N/A 
2.  Enter interface view. 
interface interface-type 
interface-number 
N/A 
3.  Enable the state-refresh 
capability. 
pim ipv6 state-refresh-capable 
Optional. 
Enabled by default.
 
 
Configuring state refresh parameters 
The router directly connected with the multicast source periodically sends state-refresh messages. You can 
configure the interval for sending such messages. 
A router might receive multiple state-refresh messages within a short time. Some messages might be 
duplicated messages. To keep a router from receiving such duplicated messages, you can configure the 
time that the router must wait before receiving the next state-refresh message. If the router receives a new 
state-refresh message within the waiting time, it discards it. If this timer times out, the router will accept 
a new state-refresh message, refresh its own IPv6 PIM-DM state, and reset the waiting timer.  
The hop limit value of a state-refresh message decrements by 1 whenever it passes a router before it is 
forwarded to the downstream node until the hop limit value comes down to 0. In a small network, a 
state-refresh message might cycle in the network. To control the propagation scope of state-refresh 
messages, you must configure an appropriate hop limit value based on the network size.  
Perform the following configurations on all routers in the IPv6 PIM domain.  
To configure state-refresh parameters: 
 
Ste
  Command  Remarks 
1.  Enter system view. 
system-view  N/A 
2.  Enter IPv6 PIM view. 
pim ipv6  N/A 
3.  Configure the interval 
between state-refresh 
messages. 
state-refresh-interval interval 
Optional. 
60 seconds by default.
 
4.  Configure the time to wait 
before receiving a new 
state-refresh message. 
state-refresh-rate-limit interval 
Optional. 
30 seconds by default.
 
5.  Configure the hop limit value 
of state-refresh messages. 
state-refresh-hoplimit 
hoplimit-value 
Optional. 
255 by default.