Configuring a peer description

Configure a peer description to add descriptive text to an MSDP peer for easy identification of a peer.

Procedure

  1. Enter either Global Configuration mode or VRF Router Configuration mode for a specific VRF context:

    enable

    configure terminal

    Optional: router vrf WORD<1-16>

  2. Configure the peer description:

    ip msdp description {A.B.C.D} WORD<1-255>

Example

Switch:1>enable
Switch:1#configure terminal
Switch:1(config)#ip msdp peer 21.0.0.2 primary

Variable definitions

The following table defines parameters for the ip msdp description command.

Variable

Value

{A.B.C.D}

Specifies the MSDP peer IP address.

WORD<1-255>

Specifies a descriptive text to a MSDP peer in the range of 1-255 characters. To include spaces in the peer description, enclose the text string in quotation marks.
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