400-007 · Question #33
You are tasked with the design of a high available network. Which two features provide fail closed environments? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is A. EIGRP B. RPVST+. EIGRP and RPVST+ provide fail-closed environments by actively withdrawing or blocking paths when failures are detected, ensuring traffic does not pass over failed or unstable paths.
Question
You are tasked with the design of a high available network. Which two features provide fail closed environments? (Choose two.)
Options
- AEIGRP
- BRPVST+
- CMST
- DL2MP
How the community answered
(49 responses)- A78% (38)
- C6% (3)
- D16% (8)
Why each option
EIGRP and RPVST+ provide fail-closed environments by actively withdrawing or blocking paths when failures are detected, ensuring traffic does not pass over failed or unstable paths.
EIGRP is fail-closed because when a neighbor adjacency goes down, it immediately removes all routes learned through that neighbor, dropping traffic destined via that path rather than forwarding it over a failed link.
RPVST+ is fail-closed because it actively blocks ports during topology changes to prevent Layer 2 loops, ensuring that a failure causes the affected path to be shut down rather than left in an indeterminate state.
MST maps multiple VLANs to fewer spanning tree instances and is optimized for scale rather than rapid fail-closed convergence, making it less suited for guaranteeing a fail-closed posture compared to RPVST+.
L2MP is not a widely standardized high-availability protocol and does not define a fail-closed behavior that would qualify it for this design requirement.
Concept tested: Fail-closed high availability with EIGRP and RPVST+
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/tech/ip/enhanced-interior-gateway-routing-protocol-eigrp/index.html
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