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350-501 · Question #452

Refer to the exhibit. A network engineer is implementing iBGP and eBGP between AS 600 and AS 500 with these requirements: - R2 must establish eBGP peering on 192.168.3.0/30 with R5 for sending…

The correct answer is B. Configure advertisement-Interval 30 in address-family Ipv4 multicast. To meet the requirement of delaying BGP updates for multicast traffic by 30 seconds, the advertisement-interval command must be configured within the IPv4 multicast address family on R2, which controls the minimum time between sending BGP routing updates to a neighbor.

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Question

Refer to the exhibit. A network engineer is implementing iBGP and eBGP between AS 600 and AS 500 with these requirements:

  • R2 must establish eBGP peering on 192.168.3.0/30 with R5 for sending

unicast and multicast traffic

  • R2 must wait for 30 seconds before sending BGP updates to R5 for

multicast traffic. Which action must be taken on R2 to meet the requirements?

Exhibit

350-501 question #452 exhibit

Options

  • AConfigure advertisement-interval 30 In address-family ipv4 unicast
  • BConfigure advertisement-Interval 30 in address-family Ipv4 multicast
  • CApply timers bgp 30 in address-family ipv4 unicast
  • DApply timers bgp 30 in address-family ipv4 multicast.

How the community answered

(31 responses)
  • A
    10% (3)
  • B
    81% (25)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    6% (2)

Why each option

To meet the requirement of delaying BGP updates for multicast traffic by 30 seconds, the `advertisement-interval` command must be configured within the IPv4 multicast address family on R2, which controls the minimum time between sending BGP routing updates to a neighbor.

AConfigure advertisement-interval 30 In address-family ipv4 unicast

Configuring `advertisement-interval 30` in the `ipv4 unicast` address family would apply the delay to unicast updates, not multicast, which is not what the requirement specifies.

BConfigure advertisement-Interval 30 in address-family Ipv4 multicastCorrect

The `advertisement-interval` command, when configured within a specific address-family (like `ipv4 multicast`), directly controls the minimum interval that must pass before BGP sends routing updates for routes within that family to a neighbor. Setting this to 30 seconds for IPv4 multicast on R2 will ensure that BGP waits at least 30 seconds before propagating multicast routing updates to R5, fulfilling the requirement.

CApply timers bgp 30 in address-family ipv4 unicast

The `timers bgp` command sets the BGP keepalive and hold timers for session maintenance, not the interval between sending routing updates for a specific address family. Applying it to `ipv4 unicast` would further miss the target traffic type.

DApply timers bgp 30 in address-family ipv4 multicast.

Similar to option C, `timers bgp` affects session keepalives and holds, not update intervals, and applying it to `ipv4 multicast` would not achieve the desired delay in sending updates.

Concept tested: BGP advertisement-interval for specific address families

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bgp/command/bgp-cr-a1.html#wp2211475752

Topics

#BGP#eBGP#Multicast Routing#BGP Configuration

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