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A workload domain uses Active-Standby Tier-0 with a single Edge cluster. After a failover event, north-south traffic resumes, but ARP entries on upstream switches remain incorrect, causing…

The correct answer is B. Gratuitous ARP. After a Tier-0 Active-Standby failover, the new active Edge node sends Gratuitous ARP to update upstream devices with the correct MAC-to-IP mappings. BFD handles failure detection, not neighbor update. This exact ARP-vs-BFD distinction shows up a lot in advanced NSX exams.

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Question

A workload domain uses Active-Standby Tier-0 with a single Edge cluster. After a failover event, north-south traffic resumes, but ARP entries on upstream switches remain incorrect, causing intermittent packet loss. Which NSX mechanism is responsible for correcting this condition?

Options

  • ABFD
  • BGratuitous ARP
  • CRoute redistribution
  • DMAC address table aging

How the community answered

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  • A
    5% (2)
  • B
    83% (34)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    10% (4)

Explanation

After a Tier-0 Active-Standby failover, the new active Edge node sends Gratuitous ARP to update upstream devices with the correct MAC-to-IP mappings. BFD handles failure detection, not neighbor update. This exact ARP-vs-BFD distinction shows up a lot in advanced NSX exams.

Topics

#Gratuitous ARP#ARP table correction#Active-Standby Tier-0#failover

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