Which Junos OS component is responsible for maintaining the forwarding table?

The correct answer is A. Routing Engine. The Routing Engine (RE) is responsible for maintaining the routing table and the forwarding table. It runs the routing protocols, computes the best paths, and updates the routing table accordingly. The routing table information is then used to populate the forwarding table…

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ARouting Engine
Bchassis control daemon
CPacket Forwarding Engine
Dmanagement daemon

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The Routing Engine (RE) is responsible for maintaining the routing table and the forwarding table. It runs the routing protocols, computes the best paths, and updates the routing table accordingly. The routing table information is then used to populate the forwarding table, which is provided to the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) to make packet-forwarding decisions.

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