Question 320
A campus advertises overlapping VLAN subnet ranges across two sites, generating unpredictable routing to both. Which failure mechanism best explains the observed behavior?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The symptoms fit this mechanism. A targeted response is to renumber or resegment overlapping prefixes or establish an explicitly designed translation boundary, followed by verification that each site has unique routes, and permitted inter-site flows reach the intended endpoints.
Incorrect Answers
That explanation fits a different case, such as when a team adds a new L3 transit VLAN but configures the wrong IP mask on one side of the point-to-point link. The symptoms here are better explained by duplicate destination prefixes prevent unambiguous routed reachability between sites.
That explanation fits a different case, such as when a default route learned from dynamic routing persists despite a better directly connected route for an internal subnet. The symptoms here are better explained by duplicate destination prefixes prevent unambiguous routed reachability between sites.
That explanation fits a different case, such as when a campus BGP peering to an ISP remains Idle because the local neighbor remote-AS setting is incorrect. The symptoms here are better explained by duplicate destination prefixes prevent unambiguous routed reachability between sites.