352-001 · Question #747
You must change a network design to include link-state topology summarization. Which two effects of route summarization should you be concerned about? (Choose two)
The correct answer is B. Suboptimal routing C. Traffic black-holing. Route summarization in link-state networks risks suboptimal routing and traffic black-holing when aggregate routes mask the true reachability of individual prefixes.
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You must change a network design to include link-state topology summarization. Which two effects of route summarization should you be concerned about? (Choose two)
Options
- APacket reordering
- BSuboptimal routing
- CTraffic black-holing
- DNot scalable
- ESlow convergence
How the community answered
(35 responses)- A11% (4)
- B80% (28)
- D6% (2)
- E3% (1)
Why each option
Route summarization in link-state networks risks suboptimal routing and traffic black-holing when aggregate routes mask the true reachability of individual prefixes.
Packet reordering is caused by multipath load balancing or out-of-order delivery at the transport layer, not by route summarization.
Summarization forces downstream routers to select paths based on the aggregate prefix rather than each specific subnet, which can result in traffic taking a longer or less efficient path that would not have been chosen if the specific prefix were visible.
A router advertising a summary route may have one or more specific subnets within that summary become unreachable - because the summary continues to be advertised, other routers forward traffic toward those subnets where it is silently dropped, creating a black hole.
Route summarization improves scalability by reducing routing table size and limiting LSA propagation scope, making it a key tool for large link-state deployments rather than a hindrance.
Summarization improves convergence by containing topology change flooding within an area or policy boundary, reducing the number of routers that must recalculate routes after a change.
Concept tested: Route summarization side effects in link-state routing
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/open-shortest-path-first-ospf/13689-17.html
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