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400-007 · Question #159

Refer to the exhibit. For Company XYZ Bangkok is using ECMP to reach the 172.20.2.0/24 network. The company wants a design that would allow them to forward traffic from 172.16.2.0/24 toward…

The correct answer is A. policy-based routing. Policy-based routing (PBR) enables source-address-based forwarding decisions, allowing traffic from 172.16.2.0/24 to be steered toward the Singapore next hop while all other traffic continues using the existing ECMP paths.

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Question

Refer to the exhibit. For Company XYZ Bangkok is using ECMP to reach the 172.20.2.0/24 network. The company wants a design that would allow them to forward traffic from 172.16.2.0/24 toward 172.20.2.0/24 via the Singapore router as the preferred route. The rest of the traffic should continue to use ECMP. Which technology fulfills this design requirement?

Exhibit

400-007 question #159 exhibit

Options

  • Apolicy-based routing
  • Broute summarization
  • Cunequal-cost load balancing using variance
  • DLFA

How the community answered

(42 responses)
  • A
    74% (31)
  • B
    5% (2)
  • C
    7% (3)
  • D
    14% (6)

Why each option

Policy-based routing (PBR) enables source-address-based forwarding decisions, allowing traffic from 172.16.2.0/24 to be steered toward the Singapore next hop while all other traffic continues using the existing ECMP paths.

Apolicy-based routingCorrect

PBR uses route maps applied to an interface to match packets by source address via an ACL and then sets a specific next hop, overriding the normal routing table lookup only for matched traffic. Because PBR operates per-packet before the FIB is consulted for matched flows, traffic from 172.16.2.0/24 is forwarded via Singapore while unmatched traffic falls through to the existing ECMP routing table entries.

Broute summarization

Route summarization aggregates destination prefixes in the routing table and has no mechanism to differentiate forwarding based on source IP address.

Cunequal-cost load balancing using variance

Unequal-cost load balancing via variance distributes traffic proportionally across multiple paths based on metric ratios but cannot match and steer traffic by source address to a preferred next hop.

DLFA

LFA pre-computes backup next hops for fast reroute during link or node failures and does not provide source-address-based traffic engineering for normal forwarding.

Concept tested: Policy-based routing for source-address traffic steering

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_pi/configuration/xe-16/iri-xe-16-book/iri-policy-route-maps.html

Topics

#policy-based routing#ECMP#traffic engineering#route selection

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