Configure PIM-SM Globally

Before you begin

Note

Before you can enable the PIM Infinite Threshold Policy feature, you must first disable the following:

• PIM-SM

• PIM-SSM

• Simplified vIST

1. Enter Global Configuration mode:

   enable

   configure terminal

2. Enable PIM-SM:

   ip pim enable

3. Configure the time between bootstrap messages:

   ip pim bootstrap-period <5–32757>

4. Configure the timeout to discard data:

   ip pim disc-data-timeout <5–65535>

5. Enable the fast join prune interval:

   ip pim fast-joinprune

6. Configure the forward cache timeout:

   ip pim fwd-cache-timeout <10–86400>

7. Configure the interval for join and prune messages:

   ip pim join-prune-interval <1–18724>

8. Specify how long to suppress register messages:

   ip pim register-suppression-timeout <6–65535>

9. Specify how often the candidate-rendezvous point (C-RP) sends advertisements:

   ip pim rp-c-adv-timeout <5–26214>

10. Configure PIM Infinite Threshold Policy:
    1. Disable PIM-SM.

       no pim enable

    2. Enable PIM Infinite Threshold Policy:

       ip pim spt-infinite-threshold

    3. Enable PIM-SM:

       ip pim enable

11. Configure the polling interval for the routing table manager (RTM):

    ip pim unicast-route-change-timeout <2–65535>

12. Verify the configuration changes:

    show ip pim

Example

Verify the configuration changes:

Switch:1(config)#show ip pim

Switch:1>show ip pim
==========================================================================================
                        Pim General Group - GlobalRouter
==========================================================================================
PimStat               : disabled
Mode                  : sparse
StaticRP              : disabled
FastJoinPrune         : disabled
SptInfiniteThreshold  : enabled
BootstrapPeriod       : 60
CRPAdvTimeout         : 60
DiscDataTimeout       : 60
FwdCacheTimeout       : 210
RegSupprTimeout       : 60
UniRouteChangeTimeout : 5
JoinPruneInt          : 60