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400-007 · Question #165

Which DCI technology utilizes a "flood and learn" technique to populate the Layer2 forwarding table?

The correct answer is C. VPLS. VPLS uses a flood-and-learn mechanism to build its MAC forwarding table, behaving like a traditional Ethernet LAN across a provider backbone.

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Question

Which DCI technology utilizes a "flood and learn" technique to populate the Layer2 forwarding table?

Options

  • ALISP
  • BOTV
  • CVPLS
  • DEVPN

How the community answered

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  • A
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  • B
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  • C
    90% (38)
  • D
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Why each option

VPLS uses a flood-and-learn mechanism to build its MAC forwarding table, behaving like a traditional Ethernet LAN across a provider backbone.

ALISP

LISP uses a map-request/map-reply control plane to resolve endpoint identifiers to routing locators, not flood-and-learn.

BOTV

OTV uses a control-plane-based MAC learning mechanism over an overlay, avoiding flooding across the DCI link.

CVPLSCorrect

VPLS emulates a full-mesh Ethernet LAN service by flooding unknown unicast, broadcast, and multicast frames to all pseudowires in the VPLS instance. As frames arrive, the source MAC addresses are learned and associated with the incoming pseudowire, populating the Layer 2 forwarding table dynamically - this is the classic flood-and-learn behavior inherited from standard Ethernet bridging.

DEVPN

EVPN distributes MAC and IP reachability information via BGP control plane advertisements, eliminating the need for data-plane flooding to learn addresses.

Concept tested: VPLS data-plane MAC learning mechanism

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/asr9000/software/asr9k_r6-0/lxvpn/configuration/guide/b_l2vpn60xasr9k_chapter_010.html

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#DCI#VPLS#flood and learn#L2 forwarding table

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