Question 280
At fictional Oakline Utilities, during a wholesale access handoff, engineers report: An IPv6 static route uses a link-local next hop without specifying the required outgoing interface, leaving route resolution ambiguous. Which ongoing control would most directly detect or prevent the same failure from recurring?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Validate next-hop address scope and outbound interface for static IPv6 routes during deployment. This monitors the behavior that failed at Oakline Utilities; the most useful acceptance signal is that the intended IPv6 destination has an active route with a resolved next hop and working egress interface.
Incorrect Answers
Track IPv4 and IPv6 IS-IS reachability separately in dual-stack health checks. The monitored boundary differs from IPv6 static next-hop scope, so the original weakness might reappear unnoticed. IPv6 link-local next hops are interface-scoped; a bare link-local address can be insufficient to identify the outgoing link.
Guard tunnel outer endpoint routes against redistribution into the overlay routing table. That ongoing check is for GRE recursive route avoidance; it would not reliably detect recurrence of IPv6 static next-hop scope. IPv6 link-local next hops are interface-scoped; a bare link-local address can be insufficient to identify the outgoing link.
This is a useful guard against IPv6 neighbor discovery filtering, but it is not scoped to the observed IPv6 static next-hop scope failure. An appropriate test would show that the intended IPv6 destination has an active route with a resolved next hop and working egress interface.