Question 540
At fictional Unionpoint Mobile, during a redundant core router pair, engineers report: A service edge expects a summary to be visible, but the aggregate is inactive because no qualifying component route contributes to it. Which ongoing control would most directly detect or prevent the same failure from recurring?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Test route contributor withdrawal in staging and compare active aggregates with constituent route inventory after changes. This monitors the behavior that failed at Unionpoint Mobile; the most useful acceptance signal is that the aggregate is active only with the expected contributors and disappears when the contributor precondition is removed.
Incorrect Answers
This is a useful guard against static route next-hop resolution, but it is not scoped to the observed aggregate route contributor failure. An appropriate test would show that the aggregate is active only with the expected contributors and disappears when the contributor precondition is removed.
Check inter-area prefix availability at each ABR after changes to area boundaries and route filters. That ongoing check is for OSPF area LSA propagation; it would not reliably detect recurrence of aggregate route contributor. An aggregate route is conditional on active contributing routes and normally uses a discard or reject next hop to avoid creating a forwarding loop.
Check forwarding-table next-hop sets and multi-flow traffic after any export-policy or path-cost change. The monitored boundary differs from aggregate route contributor, so the original weakness might reappear unnoticed. An aggregate route is conditional on active contributing routes and normally uses a discard or reject next hop to avoid creating a forwarding loop.