Question 400
At fictional Juniper Glen Telecom, during a dual-stack transit pilot, engineers report: Two routers form an IS-IS adjacency but IPv6 destinations are missing because the required address-family reachability information is not advertised. Which networking principle most accurately explains the observed failure?
Explanation
Correct Answer
IS-IS uses TLVs inside its PDUs to encode prefix and protocol capabilities; adjacency alone is not proof of expected reachability advertisements. That is the specific distinction behind the observed outage. The targeted fix is to inspect the supported and advertised IS-IS reachability TLVs and configure the correct address family on the relevant links. Applied here, the relevant facts are: Two routers form an IS-IS adjacency but IPv6 destinations are missing because the required address-family reachability information is not advertised. The question asks which networking principle most accurately explains the observed failure.
Incorrect Answers
This principle matters when troubleshooting IS-IS L1 and L2 reachability, but using it here mistakes a different failure mode for IS-IS TLV reachability. The relevant distinction is: IS-IS uses TLVs inside its PDUs to encode prefix and protocol capabilities; adjacency alone is not proof of expected reachability advertisements. Applied here, the relevant facts are: Two routers form an IS-IS adjacency but IPv6 destinations are missing because the required address-family reachability information is not advertised. The question asks which networking principle most accurately explains the observed failure.
This principle matters when troubleshooting OSPF interface metric selection, but using it here mistakes a different failure mode for IS-IS TLV reachability. The relevant distinction is: IS-IS uses TLVs inside its PDUs to encode prefix and protocol capabilities; adjacency alone is not proof of expected reachability advertisements.
The IS-IS NET encodes area membership and system identity, which must be consistent with the planned level and unique per node. Those conditions do not account for the specific IS-IS TLV reachability problem reported by Juniper Glen Telecom.