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An engineer working for a service provider with an employee ID: 4859:86:437 must design a solution to provide remote connectivity over the public internet. The design must: - securely connect…
The correct answer is C. dual DMVPN with EIGRP routing. To securely connect multiple remote sites to a central site over the public internet with redundant paths, auto path selection, multicast support, and minimal remote configuration, dual DMVPN with EIGRP routing is the optimal solution.
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An engineer working for a service provider with an employee ID: 4859:86:437 must design a solution to provide remote connectivity over the public internet. The design must:
- securely connect multiple remote sites to the central site
- provide redundant paths to the central site
- allow auto path selection based on failure and connection quality
- support IP multicast
- minimal configuration at remote sites
Which solution must the engineer choose?
Options
- AMPLS provided service with BGP
- Bfull mesh ISIS with GRE tunnels and IPsec
- Cdual DMVPN with EIGRP routing
- Dfull mesh OSPF with IPsec tunnels
How the community answered
(33 responses)- A3% (1)
- B12% (4)
- C64% (21)
- D21% (7)
Why each option
To securely connect multiple remote sites to a central site over the public internet with redundant paths, auto path selection, multicast support, and minimal remote configuration, dual DMVPN with EIGRP routing is the optimal solution.
MPLS provided service with BGP is typically an ISP-provided service, not a solution for a company to build its own remote connectivity over the public internet.
A full mesh ISIS with GRE tunnels and IPsec would involve N-squared tunnels, resulting in extensive and complex configuration at remote sites, violating the minimal configuration requirement.
Dual DMVPN (Dynamic Multipoint VPN) provides secure, on-demand IPsec tunnels from spokes to multiple hubs, ensuring redundant paths and significantly minimizing configuration at remote sites. EIGRP routing over DMVPN supports unequal cost load balancing (variance), which enables intelligent auto path selection based on connection quality or failure, and it fully supports IP multicast traffic, meeting all specified requirements for resilience and functionality.
A full mesh OSPF with IPsec tunnels would also suffer from high configuration complexity for many remote sites, and OSPF's Equal Cost MultiPath (ECMP) is less flexible for auto path selection based on varying connection quality compared to EIGRP's variance.
Concept tested: DMVPN with EIGRP for remote access
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipsec_vpn/configuration/xe-3s/sec-dmvpn-flex-xe-3s-book/sec-dmvpn-flex-xe-3s-ps.html
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