Question 1
During a dual-stack transit pilot at fictional Coppercrest Cloud, the team observes: An alternate port stops receiving BPDUs during a one-way failure and risks incorrectly transitioning to forwarding. Which focused engineering action would best correct the fault?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Use loop protection on appropriate nondesignated interfaces and verify the safe state during missing-BPDU events. This treats the fault shown by Coppercrest Cloud: loop protection protects non-designated ports against false transition to forwarding when expected BPDUs disappear. Confirm success when the impacted non-designated port stays protected while BPDUs are absent and returns only after control-plane health is restored.
Incorrect Answers
Enable and inspect the relevant IS-IS IPv6 address-family reachability advertisements and verify eligible routes. Its normal acceptance signal would be IPv6 reachability TLVs are exchanged and peers install the intended IPv6 routes independently of IPv4 reachability. Here the deciding check is different: the impacted non-designated port stays protected while BPDUs are absent and returns only after control-plane health is restored.
Apply root protection on boundary designated ports where upstream superiority must be blocked and verify root placement. That could help in a case involving RSTP root protection. This failure instead depends on RSTP loop protection; loop protection protects non-designated ports against false transition to forwarding when expected BPDUs disappear.
Align MST region name, revision, and VLAN-to-instance mapping across all intended region members. This addresses MSTP region consistency, but the reported symptoms arise from RSTP loop protection. For this case, verify instead that the impacted non-designated port stays protected while BPDUs are absent and returns only after control-plane health is restored.