400-007 · Question #227
An engineer is designing a DMVPN network where OSPF has been chosen as the routing protocol. A spoke-to-spoke data propagation model must be set up. Which two design considerations must be taken…
The correct answer is A. The hub should be the DR by changing the priority of the spokes to 0 E. Configure all the sites as network type broadcast. In DMVPN Phase 2 with OSPF, broadcast network type must be used and hub must be DR to preserve spoke-to-spoke next-hop information for direct tunnel establishment.
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An engineer is designing a DMVPN network where OSPF has been chosen as the routing protocol. A spoke-to-spoke data propagation model must be set up. Which two design considerations must be taken into account? (Choose two.)
Options
- AThe hub should be the DR by changing the priority of the spokes to 0
- BThe hub should be set as the DR by specifying the priority to 255
- CThe network type on all sites should be point-to-multipoint
- DThe network type should be point-to-multipoint for the hub and point-to-point for the spokes
- EConfigure all the sites as network type broadcast
How the community answered
(27 responses)- A67% (18)
- B19% (5)
- C4% (1)
- D11% (3)
Why each option
In DMVPN Phase 2 with OSPF, broadcast network type must be used and hub must be DR to preserve spoke-to-spoke next-hop information for direct tunnel establishment.
Setting spoke OSPF priority to 0 prevents spokes from ever being elected DR or BDR, ensuring the hub is always the DR. This is required because the hub is the only device with full multipoint GRE visibility and must distribute routing updates with correct next-hop addresses to all spokes.
Setting the hub priority to 255 alone does not prevent spokes from becoming DR if the hub is unavailable; the correct design sets spoke priority to 0, which guarantees the hub wins election regardless of priority values.
Point-to-multipoint network type causes OSPF to overwrite the next-hop with the advertising router's own address, breaking spoke-to-spoke forwarding because spokes cannot resolve the correct tunnel destination for direct paths.
Mixing network types between hub and spokes creates OSPF adjacency incompatibilities since both ends of an adjacency must use compatible network types to form a proper neighbor relationship.
Configuring OSPF network type as broadcast on all interfaces enables DR/BDR election and causes OSPF to preserve the original next-hop address in LSAs rather than replacing it with the advertising router's address - this next-hop preservation is essential for spoke-to-spoke traffic to resolve the correct NHRP tunnel endpoint and build direct tunnels.
Concept tested: DMVPN Phase 2 OSPF design with spoke-to-spoke routing
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/WAN_and_MAN/DMVPN/DMVPN_2.html
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