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A Service Provider is designing a solution for a managed CE service to a number of local customers using a single CE platform and wants to have logical separation on the CE platform using Virtual…

The correct answer is B. Policy Based Routing. Policy-Based Routing (PBR) is the most scalable CE-side mechanism for selecting VRFs based on packet attributes such as IP address range or packet length. It uses route-map match conditions to steer traffic into the correct VRF without requiring additional routing protocol…

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Question

A Service Provider is designing a solution for a managed CE service to a number of local customers using a single CE platform and wants to have logical separation on the CE platform using Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) based on IP address ranges or packet length. Which is the most scalable solution to provide this type of VRF Selection process on the CE edge device?

Options

  • AStatic Routes for Route Leaking
  • BPolicy Based Routing
  • COSPF per VRF Instance
  • DMulti-Protocol BGP

How the community answered

(34 responses)
  • A
    9% (3)
  • B
    71% (24)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    18% (6)

Why each option

Policy-Based Routing (PBR) is the most scalable CE-side mechanism for selecting VRFs based on packet attributes such as IP address range or packet length. It uses route-map match conditions to steer traffic into the correct VRF without requiring additional routing protocol instances.

AStatic Routes for Route Leaking

Static routes for route leaking are used to share prefixes between already-selected VRFs, not to classify incoming packets and assign them to a VRF based on IP range or packet length.

BPolicy Based RoutingCorrect

PBR uses route-maps with flexible match statements - matching source or destination IP prefixes, packet length, or protocol - combined with a 'set vrf' action to direct traffic into the appropriate VRF at ingress, providing policy-driven VRF selection that scales to many customers on a single CE platform without per-VRF routing protocol overhead.

COSPF per VRF Instance

OSPF per VRF instance is a routing protocol that distributes reachability information within each VRF; it has no mechanism to inspect arriving packets and make a VRF assignment decision based on packet attributes.

DMulti-Protocol BGP

MP-BGP is used between provider PE routers to exchange VPN-IPv4 prefixes for MPLS VPN signaling, and does not perform packet-level VRF selection on a CE device based on IP ranges or packet length.

Concept tested: Policy-Based Routing for VRF selection on CE device

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

Topics

#Policy Based Routing#VRF selection#managed CE#service provider

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