Question 320
At a provider edge operations team in Singapore, a post-change check targets this documented issue: A DMVPN spoke behind NAT cannot establish IPsec because the path filters NAT traversal traffic. Which observation is the strongest evidence that the repair worked?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This is the observable outcome for nat-t reachability. It tests whether the targeted change, 'Validate the NAT traversal behavior and allow the required IKE/IPsec NAT-T transport on the underlay', actually resolved the reported issue at a provider edge operations team in Singapore. The original failure was: A DMVPN spoke behind NAT cannot establish IPsec because the path filters NAT traversal traffic.
Incorrect Answers
That observation verifies tunnel ipsec profile binding in a different situation, such as when spoke-to-hub GRE packets are being sent without the required encryption because no tunnel protection profile is attached. For the reported nat-t reachability incident at a provider edge operations team in Singapore, the required acceptance evidence is: The spoke behind NAT establishes IPsec and bidirectional encrypted traffic flows. This other result does not test that condition directly.
That observation verifies spoke multicast static mapping in a different situation, such as when a DMVPN spoke reaches the hub by unicast but its multicast routing hellos never reach the hub tunnel. For the reported nat-t reachability incident at a provider edge operations team in Singapore, the required acceptance evidence is: The spoke behind NAT establishes IPsec and bidirectional encrypted traffic flows. This other result does not test that condition directly.
That observation verifies dmvpn nhrp network id mismatch in a different situation, such as when the hub and spoke use different NHRP network identifiers despite otherwise consistent tunnel addressing. For the reported nat-t reachability incident at a provider edge operations team in Singapore, the required acceptance evidence is: The spoke behind NAT establishes IPsec and bidirectional encrypted traffic flows. This other result does not test that condition directly.