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352-001 · Question #307

To improve the stability of a global network, you have been tasked with changing the design to include link-state topology summarization. What are two issues that you should address as part of the des

The correct answer is B. suboptimal routing C. traffic black-holing. Route summarization in link-state protocols reduces flooding overhead but introduces suboptimal routing and the risk of traffic black-holing when summary prefixes are advertised for destinations that no longer exist.

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Question

To improve the stability of a global network, you have been tasked with changing the design to include link-state topology summarization. What are two issues that you should address as part of the design? (Choose two.)

Options

  • Aslow convergence
  • Bsuboptimal routing
  • Ctraffic black-holing
  • Dpacket reordering

How the community answered

(45 responses)
  • A
    20% (9)
  • B
    71% (32)
  • D
    9% (4)

Why each option

Route summarization in link-state protocols reduces flooding overhead but introduces suboptimal routing and the risk of traffic black-holing when summary prefixes are advertised for destinations that no longer exist.

Aslow convergence

Summarization reduces SPF computation scope and LSA propagation across area boundaries, which generally improves convergence speed rather than slowing it.

Bsuboptimal routingCorrect

Summarization hides specific prefix-level topology, so routers select paths based on the summary rather than the best path to the exact destination, which can result in traffic taking a longer or less efficient route - suboptimal routing.

Ctraffic black-holingCorrect

When a summarizing router advertises a summary block but individual subnets within that block are unreachable locally, traffic destined for those subnets is attracted to the summarizing router and silently dropped, causing a black hole.

Dpacket reordering

Packet reordering is caused by per-packet load balancing or asymmetric path changes and is not a design concern introduced by topology summarization.

Concept tested: Link-state route summarization design trade-offs

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/open-shortest-path-first-ospf/47828-ospf-summarization.html

Topics

#route summarization#link-state#suboptimal routing#traffic black-holing

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