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352-001 · Question #273

You are designing a large Frame Relay WAN for a customer. The routing protocol is OSPF. What is the effect on the routing table if the WAN interfaces are configured as point-to- multipoint?

The correct answer is D. Multipoint interfaces dynamically add a /32 route for each neighbor in the WAN.. OSPF point-to-multipoint network type over Frame Relay treats each neighbor as a separate point-to-point relationship and installs a host (/32) route per neighbor rather than a subnet route for the entire WAN segment.

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Question

You are designing a large Frame Relay WAN for a customer. The routing protocol is OSPF. What is the effect on the routing table if the WAN interfaces are configured as point-to- multipoint?

Options

  • AOnly a route for the DR will be present in the routing table.
  • BConfiguring point-to-multipoint has no effect on the routing table.
  • CMultipoint interfaces dynamically add the network of the connected interface.
  • DMultipoint interfaces dynamically add a /32 route for each neighbor in the WAN.

How the community answered

(41 responses)
  • A
    17% (7)
  • B
    7% (3)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    73% (30)

Why each option

OSPF point-to-multipoint network type over Frame Relay treats each neighbor as a separate point-to-point relationship and installs a host (/32) route per neighbor rather than a subnet route for the entire WAN segment.

AOnly a route for the DR will be present in the routing table.

Installing only a route for the DR is characteristic of OSPF broadcast or NBMA network types where a DR is elected, not point-to-multipoint which has no DR election.

BConfiguring point-to-multipoint has no effect on the routing table.

Point-to-multipoint has a direct and well-defined effect on the routing table by adding /32 host routes per neighbor, so claiming no effect is technically incorrect.

CMultipoint interfaces dynamically add the network of the connected interface.

Adding the network address of the connected interface as a subnet route is the behavior of point-to-point or broadcast network types, not point-to-multipoint, which specifically installs per-neighbor host routes.

DMultipoint interfaces dynamically add a /32 route for each neighbor in the WAN.Correct

When OSPF interfaces are configured as point-to-multipoint, OSPF does not elect a DR or BDR and instead generates individual Type-1 LSAs for each neighbor. The result is that a /32 host route is added to the routing table for each directly connected neighbor's interface IP address, allowing proper next-hop resolution across the non-broadcast multi-access Frame Relay cloud.

Concept tested: OSPF point-to-multipoint routing table behavior over Frame Relay

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/open-shortest-path-first-ospf/13693-0.html

Topics

#OSPF point-to-multipoint#Frame Relay#host routes#neighbor /32 routes

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