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A Service Provider is designing a solution for a managed CE service to a number of local customers using a single CE platform and wants to have logical separation on the CE platform using Virtual Rout
The correct answer is B. Policy Based Routing. VRF selection based on IP address ranges or packet length requires Policy Based Routing (PBR), which can match traffic attributes and forward to specific VRFs.
Question
A Service Provider is designing a solution for a managed CE service to a number of local customers using a single CE platform and wants to have logical separation on the CE platform using Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) based on IP address ranges or packet length. Which is the most scalable solution to provide this type of VRF Selection process on the CE edge device?
Options
- AStatic Routes for Route Leaking
- BPolicy Based Routing
- CMulti-Protocol BGP
- DOSPF per VRF Instance
How the community answered
(37 responses)- A3% (1)
- B76% (28)
- C8% (3)
- D14% (5)
Why each option
VRF selection based on IP address ranges or packet length requires Policy Based Routing (PBR), which can match traffic attributes and forward to specific VRFs.
Static routes for route leaking share prefixes between already-established VRFs but cannot classify incoming packets into a VRF based on source IP range or packet length.
PBR uses route-maps that can match traffic via access-lists (covering IP address ranges) or match on packet length, then set the next-hop or VRF for that traffic. This approach does not require a separate routing protocol per VRF or manual static entries for every prefix, making it the most scalable option. PBR is the standard Cisco mechanism for directing traffic into VRFs based on packet attributes rather than destination-based forwarding.
MP-BGP carries VRF routing information between PE routers in MPLS L3VPN designs and does not provide a packet-classification mechanism on the CE device for VRF assignment.
Running a separate OSPF instance per VRF handles routing within each VRF but provides no mechanism to initially classify and assign a packet to a VRF based on IP range or packet length.
Concept tested: Policy Based Routing for CE VRF selection
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_pi/configuration/xe-16/iri-xe-16-book/iri-pbr.html
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