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400-007 · Question #42

A network design includes a long signaling delay in notifying the Layer 3 control plane that an interface has failed. Which two of these actions would reduce that delay? (Choose two.)

The correct answer is B. Reduce the time for the network to reconverge. D. Enable lower data link layer recovery systems to have an opportunity to restore the interface. Reducing the delay in Layer 3 control plane notification of an interface failure requires faster lower-layer detection mechanisms and reduced routing protocol convergence timers to shorten the end-to-end failure reporting pipeline.

Designing Network Infrastructure

Question

A network design includes a long signaling delay in notifying the Layer 3 control plane that an interface has failed. Which two of these actions would reduce that delay? (Choose two.)

Options

  • AIncrease network stability.
  • BReduce the time for the network to reconverge.
  • CIncrease the notification of interface flaps.
  • DEnable lower data link layer recovery systems to have an opportunity to restore the interface

How the community answered

(48 responses)
  • A
    17% (8)
  • B
    75% (36)
  • C
    8% (4)

Why each option

Reducing the delay in Layer 3 control plane notification of an interface failure requires faster lower-layer detection mechanisms and reduced routing protocol convergence timers to shorten the end-to-end failure reporting pipeline.

AIncrease network stability.

Increasing network stability reduces the frequency of failures but has no effect on how quickly the Layer 3 control plane is notified once a failure does occur.

BReduce the time for the network to reconverge.Correct

Reducing reconvergence time involves tuning routing protocol hello and dead timers or deploying fast-detection tools like BFD, which directly compresses the total time from failure event to Layer 3 control plane awareness and route recalculation.

CIncrease the notification of interface flaps.

Increasing notification of interface flaps generates additional control plane events and risks route churn and instability, but does not reduce the per-event signaling delay to the Layer 3 control plane.

DEnable lower data link layer recovery systems to have an opportunity to restore the interfaceCorrect

Enabling lower data link layer recovery systems such as BFD, LACP, or hardware-based carrier loss detection allows failures to be signaled at Layer 1 or Layer 2 in milliseconds, bypassing the much longer dead-timer expiry that routing protocols rely on by default.

Concept tested: Reducing Layer 3 failure detection and notification delay

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bfd/configuration/xe-16/irb-xe-16-book/bfd.html

Topics

#convergence#interface failure#control plane failover#BFD

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