400-007 · Question #15
Which BGP feature provides fast convergence?
The correct answer is A. BGP PIC. BGP Prefix Independent Convergence (BGP PIC) provides fast BGP convergence by pre-installing backup paths in the forwarding plane so failover happens in milliseconds without waiting for control plane reconvergence.
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Which BGP feature provides fast convergence?
Options
- ABGP PIC
- BBGP-EVPN
- CBGP FlowSpec
- DBGP-LS
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BGP Prefix Independent Convergence (BGP PIC) provides fast BGP convergence by pre-installing backup paths in the forwarding plane so failover happens in milliseconds without waiting for control plane reconvergence.
BGP PIC pre-computes and pre-installs backup next-hop entries into the Forwarding Information Base (FIB) at the time the primary path is installed, so when a primary path fails the data plane can immediately switch to the backup path independent of BGP control plane reconvergence. This reduces failover time from several seconds down to sub-second or millisecond ranges for all affected prefixes simultaneously.
BGP-EVPN is a control plane solution for Ethernet VPN services and data center overlay networks and does not provide a general-purpose fast convergence mechanism for IP routing.
BGP FlowSpec is used to distribute traffic filtering and traffic engineering rules to routers for purposes such as DDoS mitigation and is not related to convergence speed.
BGP-LS distributes network topology and traffic engineering link-state information to external controllers such as path computation elements and does not accelerate BGP route failover.
Concept tested: BGP Prefix Independent Convergence for fast failover
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bgp/configuration/xe-16/irg-xe-16-book/bgp-prefix-independent-convergence.html
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