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HP0-Y51 · Question #44

A company is considering TRILL and SPBM as options for the data center architecture. The company is interested in how the solution handles load-balancing unicast traffic. What correctly describes…

The correct answer is B. SPBM can use Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP). TRILL does not support ECMP for unicasts, but can load-balance multicast, depending on the tree configuration. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

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A company is considering TRILL and SPBM as options for the data center architecture. The company is interested in how the solution handles load-balancing unicast traffic. What correctly describes the TRILL and SPBM options?

Options

  • ATRILL can use Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP). SPBM selects one best path to each SPBM switch in each B-VLAN, but can select different paths for different B-VLANs
  • BSPBM can use Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP). TRILL does not support ECMP for unicasts, but can load-balance multicast, depending on the tree configuration.
  • CNeither SPBM nor TRILL can use Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP). Both technologies can send traffic for different VLAN VLANs or I-SIDs on different links.
  • DBoth SPBM and TRILL can use Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) to load-balance unicasts, provided that ECMP is enable at hardware level.

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