Question 920
A campus advertises overlapping VLAN subnet ranges across two sites, generating unpredictable routing to both. Which first diagnostic check is most useful before changing the network?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This check collects evidence at the layer implicated by the symptom: duplicate destination prefixes prevent unambiguous routed reachability between sites. Examine the evidence before choosing the corrective change.
Incorrect Answers
This would be a reasonable check when an OSPF domain has duplicate router IDs after a lab switch image is cloned into production, but is less direct for the issue at hand: duplicate destination prefixes prevent unambiguous routed reachability between sites.
This would be a reasonable check when an OSPF router has a healthy adjacency but a destination prefix is missing after someone configured a restrictive inbound route filter, but is less direct for the issue at hand: duplicate destination prefixes prevent unambiguous routed reachability between sites.
This would be a reasonable check when a device sends packets to a remote IPv6 network, but return traffic fails because the remote router lacks the source-prefix route, but is less direct for the issue at hand: duplicate destination prefixes prevent unambiguous routed reachability between sites.