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Troubleshooting pim, Symptom, Analysis – H3C Technologies H3C S12500-X Series Switches User Manual

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the SPT path (Switch A and Switch D) have generated an (S, G) entry, but Switch E, which is not on the

SPT path, does not have multicast routing entries. You can use the display pim routing-table command to
display the PIM routing table information on each switch. For example:
# Display PIM routing table information on Switch A.

[SwitchA] display pim routing-table

Total 0 (*, G) entry; 1 (S, G) entry

(10.110.5.100, 232.1.1.1)

Protocol: pim-ssm, Flag:

UpTime: 00:13:25

Upstream interface: Vlan-interface101

Upstream neighbor: 192.168.1.2

RPF prime neighbor: 192.168.1.2

Downstream interface(s) information:

Total number of downstreams: 1

1: Vlan-interface100

Protocol: igmp, UpTime: 00:13:25, Expires: 00:03:25

# Display PIM routing table information on Switch D.

[SwitchD] display pim routing-table

Total 0 (*, G) entry; 1 (S, G) entry

(10.110.5.100, 232.1.1.1)

Protocol: pim-ssm, Flag: LOC

UpTime: 00:12:05

Upstream interface: Vlan-interface300

Upstream neighbor: NULL

RPF prime neighbor: NULL

Downstream interface(s) information:

Total number of downstreams: 1

1: Vlan-interface105

Protocol: pim-ssm, UpTime: 00:12:05, Expires: 00:03:25

Troubleshooting PIM

A multicast distribution tree cannot be correctly built

Symptom

A multicast distribution tree cannot be correctly built because no multicast forwarding entries are

established on the routers (including routers directly connected with multicast sources or receivers) in a
PIM network.

Analysis

On a PIM-DM enabled network, multicast data is flooded from the router that directly connects to

the multicast source to the routers that directly connects to the receivers. When the multicast data is

flooded to a router, the router creates an (S, G) entry only if it has a route to the multicast source. If
the router does not have a route to the multicast source, or if PIM-DM is not enabled on the RPF

interface toward the multicast source, the router cannot create an (S, G) entry.