Question 250
A fictional service-provider team at Coppercrest Cloud is reviewing a dual-stack transit pilot. The finding is: An alternate port stops receiving BPDUs during a one-way failure and risks incorrectly transitioning to forwarding. Which ongoing control would most directly detect or prevent the same failure from recurring?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Test one-way BPDU loss and confirm correct port role and loop-protection state during maintenance. This monitors the behavior that failed at Coppercrest Cloud; the most useful acceptance signal is that the impacted non-designated port stays protected while BPDUs are absent and returns only after control-plane health is restored.
Incorrect Answers
Audit VSTP per-VLAN root topology after new VLAN or trunk additions. That ongoing check is for VSTP per-VLAN root choice; it would not reliably detect recurrence of RSTP loop protection. Loop protection protects non-designated ports against false transition to forwarding when expected BPDUs disappear.
The control protects MPLS label stack bottom bit. It does not establish the ongoing RSTP loop protection behavior required in this network. Loop protection protects non-designated ports against false transition to forwarding when expected BPDUs disappear.
Rehearse planned root-link failures and verify alternate-port transitions and absence of loop symptoms. The monitored boundary differs from RSTP loop protection, so the original weakness might reappear unnoticed. Loop protection protects non-designated ports against false transition to forwarding when expected BPDUs disappear.