300-730 · Question #144
Which VPN technology minimizes the impact on VPN performance when encrypting multicast traffic on a Private WAN?
The correct answer is D. GETVPN. GETVPN uses a tunnelless, header-preserving encryption model that keeps original source and destination IP addresses intact, enabling native multicast forwarding across a private WAN without added encapsulation overhead.
Question
Options
- ADMVPN
- BIPsec VPN
- CFlexVPN
- DGETVPN
How the community answered
(34 responses)- B3% (1)
- C6% (2)
- D91% (31)
Why each option
GETVPN uses a tunnelless, header-preserving encryption model that keeps original source and destination IP addresses intact, enabling native multicast forwarding across a private WAN without added encapsulation overhead.
DMVPN can carry multicast but must replicate multicast traffic as individual unicast streams to each spoke router, which increases overhead and does not minimize performance impact.
Standard IPsec VPN does not support multicast natively and requires GRE encapsulation before encryption, which adds overhead and does not preserve original multicast addressing.
FlexVPN can support multicast but requires additional encapsulation such as mGRE and is not architecturally optimized for native multicast preservation the way GETVPN is on private WANs.
GETVPN encrypts the payload while preserving the original IP header, which means multicast group addresses remain visible to WAN routers and multicast routing continues to function normally. This architecture eliminates the need to replicate or convert multicast to unicast, minimizing performance impact on private WANs such as MPLS where the original addressing must be maintained.
Concept tested: GETVPN native multicast encryption on private WANs
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_conn_getvpn/configuration/xe-17/sec-conn-getvpn-xe-17-book.html
Topics
Community Discussion
No community discussion yet for this question.