Question 610
A network engineering team compares alternatives after discovering: An edge device has two BGP paths to the same prefix but operators expect load sharing merely because both routes appear in the neighbor table. What verification result demonstrates the proposed fix works?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This directly validates BGP multipath equal cost eligibility: BGP additional paths must satisfy supported multipath eligibility rules and configured maximum-path policy to share traffic. The linked design intervention is: Evaluate path attributes and supported multipath settings, then choose a design that preserves deterministic failover. Results concerning another subsystem do not prove this requirement.
Incorrect Answers
Overlay headers reduce usable path MTU and blocked ICMPv6 Packet Too Big feedback can prevent Path MTU Discovery. “Budget tunnel overhead in MTU planning, preserve required ICMPv6 control messages and validate endpoints' segment sizes” would remedy that alternative situation, but it would not correct the present issue: BGP additional paths must satisfy supported multipath eligibility rules and configured maximum-path policy to share traffic.
“Choose an aggregate policy with reviewed component-route dependencies, conservative discard behavior and correct reachability design” is the supported response when BGP aggregation can hide component failures and attract traffic for unreachable portions of the summarized prefix. Here the decisive response is “Evaluate path attributes and supported multipath settings, then choose a design that preserves deterministic failover”, so that different intervention does not meet the stated requirement.
An IPv4-only underlay cannot natively carry IPv6 forwarding without an overlay or other transition capability. “Use a supported IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel with correct endpoint reachability, encapsulation security and effective MTU” applies to that other condition. The reported evidence is an edge device has two BGP paths to the same prefix but operators expect load sharing merely because both routes appear in the neighbor table; this alternative would address the wrong dependency.