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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.

Layer 3 Control Plane

Question

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)
  • A
    82% (27)
  • B
    12% (4)
  • C
    6% (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.

Aincremental SPFCorrect

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.

Broute filtering

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.

Cgraceful restart

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.

DBFDCorrect

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

Topics

#OSPF#convergence#incremental SPF#BFD

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