spbm-config-mode boot flag

Table 1. spbm-config-mode product support

Feature

Product

Release introduced

spbm-config-mode (boot config flags spbm-config-mode)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) and Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) cannot interoperate with each other on the switch at the same time. To ensure that SPB and PIM stay mutually exclusive, the software uses a boot flag called boot config flags spbm-config-mode.

Important

Important

After you change the boot config flags spbm-config-mode flag, you must save the configuration, and then reboot the switch for the change to take effect.

For more information about this boot flag and Simplified vIST, see IP Multicast.