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Which answer about PE-CE routing design is correct in a Layer 3 MPLS VPN environment?
The correct answer is B. BGP, along with SoO, can stop the routing loop when there is a backdoor link between the CE. When CE routers at different VPN sites have a backdoor link between them, routing loops can form: a route learned over the MPLS backbone could be re-advertised back into the backbone via the backdoor link. BGP with the Site of Origin (SoO) extended community (B) solves this by…
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Which answer about PE-CE routing design is correct in a Layer 3 MPLS VPN environment?
Options
- AEIGRP has the built-in capability to stop a routing loop when there is a backdoor link between the
- BBGP, along with SoO, can stop the routing loop when there is a backdoor link between the CE
- COSPF does not support a PE-CE design when there is a backdoor link between the CE routers.
- DEIGRP does not support a PE-CE design when there is a backdoor link between the CE routers.
How the community answered
(28 responses)- A4% (1)
- B57% (16)
- C29% (8)
- D11% (3)
Explanation
When CE routers at different VPN sites have a backdoor link between them, routing loops can form: a route learned over the MPLS backbone could be re-advertised back into the backbone via the backdoor link. BGP with the Site of Origin (SoO) extended community (B) solves this by tagging routes with the site that originated them; the PE router drops any route that returns to its originating site. EIGRP (A) does not have a built-in backdoor loop prevention mechanism and requires SoO as well. OSPF (C) can support PE-CE with backdoor links using sham-links, so it is not unsupported. EIGRP (D) can also work with PE-CE and backdoor links when configured with SoO - it is not inherently unsupported.
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