Question 90
The design record describes this issue: A WAN team expects every EIGRP backup next hop to be instantly installable despite a neighbor not meeting the feasibility condition. Which technical principle BEST explains the design decision?
Explanation
Correct Answer
A feasible successor must meet DUAL’s feasibility condition to provide a loop-free immediate backup. The correct engineering response is: Design metrics and path diversity with the EIGRP feasibility condition in mind rather than assuming all backups are feasible successors. The observable check is: The topology table identifies feasible successors where available and failover measurements match expectations.
Incorrect Answers
A feasible successor must meet DUAL’s feasibility condition to provide a loop-free immediate backup. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: EIGRP stub signaling discourages neighbors from querying the spoke as a transit path for remote routes. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
A feasible successor must meet DUAL’s feasibility condition to provide a loop-free immediate backup. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: EIGRP variance permits qualifying feasible routes of unequal metric to participate in load sharing; it does not waive loop-free feasibility checks. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
A feasible successor must meet DUAL’s feasibility condition to provide a loop-free immediate backup. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: a mismatch in EIGRP K-values prevents neighbor compatibility for route exchange. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.