352-001 · Question #312
You are designing a core MPLS-based network with a single OSPF area with no external routes. Which two mechanisms can be used to improve convergence time during a failure? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is A. incremental SPF D. BFD. In a single-area OSPF MPLS core, incremental SPF reduces SPF computation overhead and BFD provides fast failure detection, together cutting convergence time after a failure.
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You are designing a core MPLS-based network with a single OSPF area with no external routes. Which two mechanisms can be used to improve convergence time during a failure? (Choose two.)
Options
- Aincremental SPF
- Broute filtering
- Cgraceful restart
- DBFD
How the community answered
(33 responses)- A82% (27)
- B12% (4)
- C6% (2)
Why each option
In a single-area OSPF MPLS core, incremental SPF reduces SPF computation overhead and BFD provides fast failure detection, together cutting convergence time after a failure.
Incremental SPF (iSPF) recalculates only the subtree of the shortest path tree affected by a topology change rather than running a full Dijkstra computation. This significantly reduces CPU processing time in larger areas and allows OSPF to install updated routes much faster after a link or node failure.
Route filtering controls which prefixes are advertised or accepted by a router but has no effect on how quickly the network detects failures or recalculates paths after a topology change.
Graceful restart is designed to maintain forwarding state while the control plane restarts, and it suppresses reconvergence from neighbors during the restart window - this actually delays convergence from a neighbor's perspective rather than accelerating it.
BFD sends rapid hello packets at millisecond intervals independent of OSPF timers, detecting link failures far faster than OSPF dead-interval expiration. Upon detecting a failure BFD immediately signals OSPF to trigger SPF, dramatically reducing the time from failure to route reconvergence.
Concept tested: OSPF convergence acceleration using iSPF and BFD
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_ospf/configuration/xe-16/iro-xe-16-book/iro-ispf.html
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