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300-710 · Question #140

An engineer must build redundancy into the network and traffic must continuously flow if a redundant switch in front of the firewall goes down. What must be configured to accomplish this task?

The correct answer is D. vPC on the switches to the span EtherChannel on the firewall cluster. Virtual Port Channels (vPC) are common EtherChannel deployments, especially in the data center, and allow multiple devices to share multiple interfaces EtherChannel Interface requires stack, VSS or vPC when connected to multiple switches.

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Question

An engineer must build redundancy into the network and traffic must continuously flow if a redundant switch in front of the firewall goes down. What must be configured to accomplish this task?

Options

  • Aredundant interfaces on the firewall cluster mode and switches
  • Bredundant interfaces on the firewall noncluster mode and switches
  • CvPC on the switches to the interface mode on the firewall duster
  • DvPC on the switches to the span EtherChannel on the firewall cluster

How the community answered

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  • A
    4% (2)
  • B
    13% (6)
  • C
    8% (4)
  • D
    75% (36)

Explanation

Virtual Port Channels (vPC) are common EtherChannel deployments, especially in the data center, and allow multiple devices to share multiple interfaces EtherChannel Interface requires stack, VSS or vPC when connected to multiple switches.

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#vPC#EtherChannel#Firewall Clustering#Network Redundancy

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