300-620 · Question #286
A Cisco ACI fabric with an ARP packet must ensure detection of silent hosts with an ARP packet. The current bridge domain is configured with hardware proxy and unicast routing. Which step must be take
The correct answer is D. Enable ARP Flooding in the bridge domain.. To enable the detection of silent hosts via ARP packets in an ACI Bridge Domain configured with hardware proxy and unicast routing, ARP Flooding must be enabled.
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A Cisco ACI fabric with an ARP packet must ensure detection of silent hosts with an ARP packet. The current bridge domain is configured with hardware proxy and unicast routing. Which step must be taken on the bridge domain to complete the configuration?
Options
- ASet Optimized Flood for L3 Unknown Multicast.
- BEnable Flood in the bridge domain for Multi Destination Flooding.
- CSet L2 Unknown Unicast to Flood.
- DEnable ARP Flooding in the bridge domain.
How the community answered
(53 responses)- A6% (3)
- B9% (5)
- C2% (1)
- D83% (44)
Why each option
To enable the detection of silent hosts via ARP packets in an ACI Bridge Domain configured with hardware proxy and unicast routing, ARP Flooding must be enabled.
Setting Optimized Flood for L3 Unknown Multicast applies to Layer 3 multicast traffic, not the Layer 2 broadcast ARP packets used for silent host detection.
Enabling Flood for Multi Destination Flooding is a broader setting for broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast, but ARP Flooding is the specific setting required for ARP-based silent host detection.
Setting L2 Unknown Unicast to Flood handles unknown destination MAC addresses for unicast frames, which is not directly responsible for the initial ARP broadcast-based detection of silent hosts.
Enabling ARP Flooding in the bridge domain is crucial because, even with hardware proxy and unicast routing, the fabric needs to flood ARP requests to learn the MAC addresses of silent hosts when their MAC-IP mapping is unknown. This allows ACI to glean the MAC address from the host's ARP response, completing the detection process.
Concept tested: ACI silent host detection, ARP flooding, hardware proxy
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/dcn/aci/apic/5x/config-guide/cisco-aci-config-guide-501/m-cisco-aci-layer-2-network-configuration.html#concept_E77626FDC4D64D569B602C55AC8B101E
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