Question 130
The network architecture board discusses the following: Thousands of individual access prefixes are injected between OSPF areas and cause excessive route-state churn. Which technical principle BEST explains the design decision?
Explanation
Correct Answer
An OSPF ABR can aggregate interarea prefixes, reducing route detail exported to other areas. The correct engineering response is: Summarize contiguous routes at eligible OSPF area boundaries without masking unavailable destinations. The observable check is: The receiving area learns appropriate aggregates and retains working reachability to included component prefixes.
Incorrect Answers
An OSPF ABR can aggregate interarea prefixes, reducing route detail exported to other areas. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: an OSPF stub area restricts external Type 5 LSA flooding while permitting interarea reachability as designed. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
An OSPF ABR can aggregate interarea prefixes, reducing route detail exported to other areas. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Passive OSPF interfaces advertise their connected networks without forming unnecessary neighbor adjacencies. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
An OSPF ABR can aggregate interarea prefixes, reducing route detail exported to other areas. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: an OSPF NSSA can originate Type 7 external information and translate it at an eligible ABR. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.