Question 150
A fictional service-provider team at Foxglove Broadband is reviewing a regional backbone upgrade. The finding is: IPv6 routes vanish after OSPFv3 was configured on one side of a link while the peer runs only OSPFv2. Which ongoing control would most directly detect or prevent the same failure from recurring?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Check IPv6 OSPFv3 adjacencies and learned prefixes separately from IPv4 OSPFv2 health. This monitors the behavior that failed at Foxglove Broadband; the most useful acceptance signal is that the expected OSPFv3 neighbor reaches Full and IPv6 routes appear with intended next hops.
Incorrect Answers
Validate MST digest and instance mapping consistency as part of configuration review. The monitored boundary differs from OSPFv3 IPv6 neighbor reachability, so the original weakness might reappear unnoticed. OSPFv3 provides OSPF routing for IPv6; successful IPv4 OSPFv2 peering does not establish an IPv6 adjacency.
This is a useful guard against IPv6 neighbor discovery filtering, but it is not scoped to the observed OSPFv3 IPv6 neighbor reachability failure. An appropriate test would show that the expected OSPFv3 neighbor reaches Full and IPv6 routes appear with intended next hops.
The control protects IPv6 static next-hop scope. It does not establish the ongoing OSPFv3 IPv6 neighbor reachability behavior required in this network. OSPFv3 provides OSPF routing for IPv6; successful IPv4 OSPFv2 peering does not establish an IPv6 adjacency.