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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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)- A17% (7)
- B7% (3)
- C2% (1)
- D73% (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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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