Operation Manual – Multicast Protocol 
Quidway S3900 Series Ethernet Switches-Release 1510  Chapter 8  MSDP Configuration
 
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Table 8-12 Display and debug MSDP configuration 
Operation  Command  Description 
Display the brief 
information of MSDP 
peer state 
 
display msdp brief 
Display the detailed 
information of MSDP 
peer status  
display msdp peer-status 
[ peer-address ] 
Display the (S, G) state 
learned from MSDP 
peers 
display msdp sa-cache 
[  group-address | 
[ source-address ] ] 
[autonomous-system-number ]
Display the number of 
sources and groups in 
the MSDP cache 
display msdp sa-count 
[autonomous-system-number ]
Reset the TCP 
connection with the 
specified MSDP peer  
reset msdp peer 
peer-address 
Clear the cached SA  
messages  
reset msdp sa-cache 
[ group-address ] 
Clear the statistics 
information of the 
specified MSDP peer 
without resetting the 
MSDP peer  
reset msdp statistics 
[ peer-address ] 
You can execute the 
display command in 
any view. 
 
II. Tracing the transmission path of an SA message over the network 
You can use the msdp-tracert command in any view to trace the path along which the 
multicast data travels from the multicast source to the destination receiver over the 
network, so as to locate errors, if any.  
Table 8-13 Trace the transmission path of an SA message over the network 
Operation  Command  Description 
Trace the 
transmission 
path of an 
SA message 
over the 
network
 
msdp-tracert  source-address 
group-address rp-address 
[ max-hops max-hops ] 
[  next-hop-info  |  sa-info  | 
peer-info  ]* [ skip-hops 
skip-hops ] 
You can execute the display 
command in any view. 
 
You can locate message loss and configuration errors by tracing the network path of 
the specified (S, G, RP) entries. Once the transmission path of SA messages is 
determined, correct configuration can prevent the flooding of SA messages.