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352-001 · Question #253

Refer to the exhibit. A service provider using IS-IS has designed this network with all core links at the Layer 2 control plane. How will they adjust the design to reduce the flooding of update packet

The correct answer is C. Use IS-IS mesh groups.. IS-IS mesh groups reduce unnecessary LSP flooding in fully meshed topologies by restricting which interfaces retransmit received LSPs, eliminating redundant floods across a dense core.

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Question

Refer to the exhibit. A service provider using IS-IS has designed this network with all core links at the Layer 2 control plane. How will they adjust the design to reduce the flooding of update packets?

Exhibit

352-001 question #253 exhibit

Options

  • AChange the area type of the links to be level-1-2 to allow level-1 updates.
  • BChange the network type of the links from broadcast to point-to-point.
  • CUse IS-IS mesh groups.
  • DConfigure SPF timers to be more aggressive so that updates are more quickly cleared from the queue.

How the community answered

(41 responses)
  • A
    7% (3)
  • B
    15% (6)
  • C
    73% (30)
  • D
    5% (2)

Why each option

IS-IS mesh groups reduce unnecessary LSP flooding in fully meshed topologies by restricting which interfaces retransmit received LSPs, eliminating redundant floods across a dense core.

AChange the area type of the links to be level-1-2 to allow level-1 updates.

Changing links from Level 2 to Level 1-2 introduces Level 1 area flooding in addition to Level 2 flooding, which increases LSP update traffic rather than reducing it.

BChange the network type of the links from broadcast to point-to-point.

Changing the network type from broadcast to point-to-point eliminates the DIS election and pseudonode LSPs but does not address the core problem of redundant LSP retransmission across many interfaces in a mesh.

CUse IS-IS mesh groups.Correct

IS-IS mesh groups assign interfaces to a numbered group so that an LSP received on one interface in the group is not retransmitted out other interfaces in the same group. In a fully meshed core where every router already receives each LSP via multiple paths, this suppresses the redundant retransmissions that dense topologies naturally generate. The result is a direct and significant reduction in the volume of flooding update packets without altering the topology or routing behavior.

DConfigure SPF timers to be more aggressive so that updates are more quickly cleared from the queue.

Aggressive SPF timers control how quickly the shortest-path-first calculation runs after an LSP is received - they affect computation scheduling, not the volume or propagation of LSP flood packets across the network.

Concept tested: IS-IS mesh groups reducing LSP flooding in dense topologies

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_isis/configuration/xe-16/irs-xe-16-book/irs-mesh-grp.html

Topics

#IS-IS mesh groups#LSP flooding#IS-IS scalability#update suppression

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