Question 430
A fictional service-provider team at Stonewell Fiber is reviewing a provider-edge service migration. The finding is: A routing process restarts but downstream peers immediately flush its prefixes, contrary to the operator's expectation of graceful preservation. Which focused engineering action would best correct the fault?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Configure and verify compatible protocol graceful-restart capability and planned helper behavior between neighbors. This treats the fault shown by Stonewell Fiber: graceful restart depends on protocol restart and helper behavior; it is not identical to copying live routing protocol state to a backup Routing Engine. Confirm success when during a controlled routing restart, participating neighbors retain forwarding state only for the permitted grace interval and then converge correctly.
Incorrect Answers
Keep GRES for forwarding continuity and enable the appropriate supported NSB for bridging or NSR or graceful restart for routing sessions as required. That could help in a case involving GRES preserves forwarding not protocols. This failure instead depends on graceful restart peer assistance; graceful restart depends on protocol restart and helper behavior; it is not identical to copying live routing protocol state to a backup Routing Engine.
Configure and verify the intended VSTP instance and per-VLAN root priorities for the affected VLANs. Its normal acceptance signal would be each VLAN's spanning-tree state selects its planned root and forwarding ports without creating a cross-VLAN loop. Here the deciding check is different: during a controlled routing restart, participating neighbors retain forwarding state only for the permitted grace interval and then converge correctly.
Align VRRP group, virtual gateway addressing and priority settings and verify master-to-backup handover. That could help in a case involving VRRP virtual gateway failover. This failure instead depends on graceful restart peer assistance; graceful restart depends on protocol restart and helper behavior; it is not identical to copying live routing protocol state to a backup Routing Engine.