352-001 · Question #341
Which three statements are correct for route filtering? (Choose three.)
The correct answer is B. Route filtering can create suboptimal routing, thus increasing latency in the network. C. Inbound route filtering affects outbound traffic flow. D. By default, EIGRP filters topology information at every hop in the network. Route filtering can cause suboptimal paths and higher latency, inbound filtering influences outbound forwarding decisions, and EIGRP withholds internal topology data from neighbors at every hop by design.
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Which three statements are correct for route filtering? (Choose three.)
Options
- AThe OSPF router LSA can be filtered with route maps so they are not installed on the OSPF
- BRoute filtering can create suboptimal routing, thus increasing latency in the network.
- CInbound route filtering affects outbound traffic flow.
- DBy default, EIGRP filters topology information at every hop in the network.
- EIS-IS filters reachability information from the Level 1 to Level 2 domain.
- FBy default, EIGRP filters the reachability information at every hop in the network.
How the community answered
(38 responses)- A11% (4)
- B79% (30)
- E3% (1)
- F8% (3)
Why each option
Route filtering can cause suboptimal paths and higher latency, inbound filtering influences outbound forwarding decisions, and EIGRP withholds internal topology data from neighbors at every hop by design.
OSPF Type 1 router LSAs describe intra-area links and are flooded throughout the area without route-map filtering support - only Type 3 summary LSAs can be filtered at area border routers using the OSPF area filter-list command, not route maps applied to router LSAs.
Filtering specific prefixes forces traffic destined for those networks to use alternate, longer paths or a default route, increasing end-to-end latency and producing suboptimal routing compared to what the unfiltered topology would allow.
When inbound route filtering suppresses prefixes on a router, that router lacks those destinations in its forwarding table and makes different outbound forwarding decisions - often via a less optimal next hop or default route - directly influencing the outbound traffic path for those destinations.
EIGRP is a distance-vector protocol that advertises computed metric distances to neighbors but does not share the contents of its topology table; each router independently runs the DUAL algorithm using only advertised successor and feasible successor distances, meaning full internal topology details are not propagated beyond each hop.
IS-IS does not filter reachability from Level 1 to Level 2 by default; Level 1/Level 2 routers automatically redistribute L1 prefix information up into the L2 backbone to ensure inter-area reachability.
EIGRP does not filter reachability information at every hop - route prefixes are propagated throughout the entire EIGRP domain to all routers, whereas only the internal topology table entries are withheld, which is the behavior accurately described by option D.
Concept tested: Route filtering impact on routing and EIGRP topology advertisement
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/enhanced-interior-gateway-routing-protocol-eigrp/16406-eigrp-toc.html
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