Question 130
A fictional service-provider team at Coastline Carrier is reviewing a network change window. The finding is: After adding a new circuit to an ae bundle, only some links forward because their LACP keys or compatibility settings differ. Which ongoing control would most directly detect or prevent the same failure from recurring?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Monitor LACP partner IDs, actor keys, member state, and bundle bandwidth after changes. This monitors the behavior that failed at Coastline Carrier; the most useful acceptance signal is that every intended member joins the same aggregation and distributes frames according to the approved LAG hash behavior.
Incorrect Answers
Exercise VRRP failover and confirm virtual gateway reachability under device and link failure. That ongoing check is for VRRP virtual gateway failover; it would not reliably detect recurrence of LACP aggregation consistency. LACP aggregates only compatible negotiated member links; physical Up state alone does not prove active bundle participation.
This is a useful guard against BGP ASN and OPEN negotiation, but it is not scoped to the observed LACP aggregation consistency failure. An appropriate test would show that every intended member joins the same aggregation and distributes frames according to the approved LAG hash behavior.
This is a useful guard against GRES preserves forwarding not protocols, but it is not scoped to the observed LACP aggregation consistency failure. An appropriate test would show that every intended member joins the same aggregation and distributes frames according to the approved LAG hash behavior.