210-060 · Question #188
With GETVPN, if a key server is configured to use multicast as the rekey transport mechanism, then under which of these conditions will the key server retransmit the rekey messages?
The correct answer is E. it always retransmit the rekey message. With GETVPN using multicast as the rekey transport, the key server always retransmits rekey messages because multicast provides no acknowledgment mechanism to confirm receipt by group members.
Question
With GETVPN, if a key server is configured to use multicast as the rekey transport mechanism, then under which of these conditions will the key server retransmit the rekey messages?
Options
- AIt never retransmit the rekey messages
- Bit only retransmit the rekey message when it does not receive the rekey acknowledgment from at
- Cit only retransmit the rekey message when it does not receive the rekey acknowledgment from all
- Dit only retransmit the rekey message when DPD to the group members fails
- Eit always retransmit the rekey message
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(29 responses)- A3% (1)
- B17% (5)
- C10% (3)
- D3% (1)
- E66% (19)
Why each option
With GETVPN using multicast as the rekey transport, the key server always retransmits rekey messages because multicast provides no acknowledgment mechanism to confirm receipt by group members.
The key server does retransmit rekey messages when using multicast - it always does so to compensate for the inherent lack of delivery acknowledgment in multicast transport.
Multicast does not support per-member acknowledgment, so the key server cannot detect a missing acknowledgment from any individual group member.
Acknowledgment-based conditional retransmission applies to unicast rekey transport, not multicast, because multicast does not provide a return-path acknowledgment from receivers.
Dead Peer Detection (DPD) is used to detect failed peers in IPsec but does not serve as the trigger for rekey retransmissions in a GETVPN multicast rekey scenario.
Because multicast is a one-way, unacknowledged transport, the key server has no way to determine whether any specific group member received the rekey message. To ensure all group members receive updated keys and security associations before the current ones expire, the key server always retransmits the rekey message a configured number of times regardless of perceived delivery status.
Concept tested: GETVPN multicast rekey retransmission behavior
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_conn_getvpn/configuration/xe-16/sec-conn-getvpn-xe-16-book/sec-conn-getvpn.html
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