Question 230
A fictional service-provider team at Cypress Fiber is reviewing a regional backbone upgrade. The finding is: A redundant Routing Engine pair has GRES enabled, yet BGP peers reset on switchover because routing protocol state is not synchronized. Which observation would most directly establish that the reported failure has been repaired?
Explanation
Correct Answer
During a controlled primary RE loss, eligible routing adjacencies continue using state maintained by the backup RE. It tests the failed behavior itself rather than merely confirming that a configuration was committed. NSR uses GRES infrastructure while preserving routing protocol state on the backup Routing Engine, avoiding reliance on neighbor restart helpers. Applied here, the relevant facts are: A redundant Routing Engine pair has GRES enabled, yet BGP peers reset on switchover because routing protocol state is not synchronized. The question asks which observation would most directly establish that the reported failure has been repaired.
Incorrect Answers
The check is meaningful for GRE tunnel path MTU, but it does not prove that NSR protocol state replication was repaired. NSR uses GRES infrastructure while preserving routing protocol state on the backup Routing Engine, avoiding reliance on neighbor restart helpers.
A controlled Routing Engine switchover retains forwarding and the planned bridge or routing state without unexpected protocol resets. That establishes GRES preserves forwarding not protocols rather than a repaired NSR protocol state replication path. The reported failure still requires this evidence: during a controlled primary RE loss, eligible routing adjacencies continue using state maintained by the backup RE.
During a controlled routing restart, participating neighbors retain forwarding state only for the permitted grace interval and then converge correctly. It would validate a separate graceful restart peer assistance operation, not the change needed here. Confirm instead that during a controlled primary RE loss, eligible routing adjacencies continue using state maintained by the backup RE.