352-001 · Question #345
When designing IP addressing for route summarization, which consideration is true?
The correct answer is C. Suboptimal routing is commonly caused by the information that is hidden in the summary route. Route summarization hides specific subnet details, which can cause routers to forward traffic along suboptimal paths when individual destinations are not visible in the routing table.
Question
When designing IP addressing for route summarization, which consideration is true?
Options
- ASummarization can be applied regardless of the network topology if the IP addressing scheme is
- BIP address space assignments should be based on the divisions of the company.
- CSuboptimal routing is commonly caused by the information that is hidden in the summary route.
- DSummary metrics are constant, regardless of the instabilities of the summary components.
How the community answered
(17 responses)- A6% (1)
- B6% (1)
- C71% (12)
- D18% (3)
Why each option
Route summarization hides specific subnet details, which can cause routers to forward traffic along suboptimal paths when individual destinations are not visible in the routing table.
Summarization requires component subnets to be topologically contiguous and aligned to a bit boundary, so applying it regardless of topology results in route leakage or black holes.
IP address assignments based on organizational divisions do not inherently produce contiguous, summarizable address blocks, and summarization must be driven by network topology rather than company structure.
When a summary route is advertised, it conceals the individual component prefixes and their precise locations, so a receiving router may forward traffic to a summarizing router that is not on the optimal path to the specific destination, resulting in suboptimal or asymmetric routing - this is a well-known trade-off that designers must account for.
In protocols like EIGRP and OSPF, summary route metrics are derived from the best metric among component routes and change as component routes fluctuate, so they are not constant.
Concept tested: Route summarization design considerations and suboptimal routing
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/ip-routing/213608-understanding-route-summarization.html
Topics
Community Discussion
No community discussion yet for this question.