Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Routing Configuration Guide, Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 17.x

Verify MSDP configuration to interconnect Cisco SD-WAN and Non-SD-WAN

Updated: March 9, 2026

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Use this procedure to confirm that protocol interoperability is active and that remote nodes are correctly identified within the overlay.

Procedure

The following is a sample output from the show platform software sdwan multicast remote-nodes vrf 1 command, which shows if MSDP interoperability is enabled or not.

Example:

Device# show platform software sdwan multicast remote-nodes vrf 1
            Multicast SDWAN Overlay Remote Nodes (* - Replicator, ^ - Delete Pending):
            Received                Sent
            SPT-Only MSDP             (X,G)      (S,G)      (X,G)      (S,G)
            System IP   Mode     I-Work Label  Join/Prune Join/Prune Join/Prune Join/Prune
            10.16.255.11 No       No     1003      0/0        0/0        0/0        1/0
            10.16.255.15 No       No     1003      1/0        1/0        0/0        0/0
            10.16.255.16 Yes      No     1003      1/0        1/0        0/0        0/0
            10.16.255.21 Yes      Yes    1003      0/0        0/0        0/0        0/0

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