Question 470
A fictional service-provider team at Cypress Fiber is reviewing a network change window. The finding is: After a traffic surge, a new RSVP LSP takes an unexpected detour because the candidate link lacks unreserved bandwidth. Which focused engineering action would best correct the fault?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Adjust the RSVP-TE bandwidth request or planned constraint-capable path and validate reservation availability. This treats the fault shown by Cypress Fiber: RSVP traffic engineering applies resource reservation and constrained path selection, not merely IP shortest-path routing. Confirm success when the intended LSP is admitted on a path satisfying its bandwidth constraints without oversubscribing reserved resources.
Incorrect Answers
Inspect RSVP PATH and RESV state hop by hop and correct the interface or reservation block preventing completion. That could help in a case involving RSVP PATH and RESV signaling. This failure instead depends on RSVP path bandwidth admission; RSVP traffic engineering applies resource reservation and constrained path selection, not merely IP shortest-path routing.
Check downstream label advertisement, selected next hop, and label binding installation before activating the LSP path. That could help in a case involving LDP label binding completeness. This failure instead depends on RSVP path bandwidth admission; RSVP traffic engineering applies resource reservation and constrained path selection, not merely IP shortest-path routing.
Correct the locally expected peer AS and actual neighbor AS identity and validate the BGP OPEN exchange. Its normal acceptance signal would be the peer moves to Established with the agreed local and remote AS values and appropriate session messages. Here the deciding check is different: the intended LSP is admitted on a path satisfying its bandwidth constraints without oversubscribing reserved resources.