352-001 · Question #412
A company will integrate an IPv6 application into their network and wants to develop a test environment to evaluate application performance across the network. This application consists of both…
The correct answer is C. DMVPN. DMVPN is the only option that supports both IPv6 unicast and multicast tunneling over an existing IPv4-only network at selectively chosen locations.
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A company will integrate an IPv6 application into their network and wants to develop a test environment to evaluate application performance across the network. This application consists of both unicast and multicast traffic. The company wants to do this testing only in certain locations of its existing IPv4-only network, and all chosen locations should communicate with each other. Which tunneling technology works in this scenario?
Options
- AISATAP
- B6PE
- CDMVPN
- D6to4
How the community answered
(42 responses)- A26% (11)
- B10% (4)
- C57% (24)
- D7% (3)
Why each option
DMVPN is the only option that supports both IPv6 unicast and multicast tunneling over an existing IPv4-only network at selectively chosen locations.
ISATAP (Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol) is designed only for unicast IPv6 traffic within a single administrative site and does not support IPv6 multicast.
6PE (IPv6 Provider Edge) requires an MPLS-enabled backbone and cannot function on a purely IPv4-only network without MPLS infrastructure in place.
DMVPN (Dynamic Multipoint VPN) supports IPv6 as a passenger protocol over an IPv4 transport network and natively supports multicast traffic through GRE tunnels, satisfying both the unicast and multicast requirements. Because DMVPN can be deployed selectively at specific sites using a hub-and-spoke or full-mesh topology, all chosen locations can communicate directly without requiring changes to the broader IPv4 infrastructure.
6to4 tunneling supports only unicast IPv6 traffic using anycast relay routers and does not support IPv6 multicast, nor does it allow selective site-to-site control.
Concept tested: IPv6 tunneling over IPv4 with multicast support
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipv6/configuration/xe-3s/ip6-xe-3s-book/ip6-tunnel.html
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