Question 290
A fictional service-provider team at Everfield Rail is reviewing a virtual-router integration. The finding is: A router running IS-IS discovers adjacent nodes but the IPv6 unicast routes never populate the IPv6 routing table. Which networking principle most accurately explains the observed failure?
Explanation
Correct Answer
IS-IS can carry IPv6 topology and prefix information using appropriate TLVs; an IPv4 route table is not a substitute. That is the specific distinction behind the observed outage. The targeted fix is to enable and inspect the relevant IS-IS IPv6 address-family reachability advertisements and verify eligible routes.
Incorrect Answers
This principle matters when troubleshooting multiprotocol BGP IPv6 AFI, but using it here mistakes a different failure mode for IS-IS IPv6 topology TLVs. The relevant distinction is: IS-IS can carry IPv6 topology and prefix information using appropriate TLVs; an IPv4 route table is not a substitute.
This principle matters when troubleshooting MPLS label push swap pop, but using it here mistakes a different failure mode for IS-IS IPv6 topology TLVs. The relevant distinction is: IS-IS can carry IPv6 topology and prefix information using appropriate TLVs; an IPv4 route table is not a substitute.
Although IPv6 neighbor discovery filtering needs this consideration, the failure at issue has a different cause. IS-IS can carry IPv6 topology and prefix information using appropriate TLVs; an IPv4 route table is not a substitute.