Question 680
The acceptance test for branch DMVPN tunnels at a nationwide retailer in Manchester must confirm a fix for: An MPLS VPN packet arrives with an outer transport label and inner service label; an operator interprets both labels as unrelated IP headers. Which outcome shows that the precise problem was corrected?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This is the observable outcome for label stack for vpn. It tests whether the targeted change, 'Interpret the outer label as transit transport forwarding and the inner label as VPN/service disposition at the egress PE', actually resolved the reported issue at a nationwide retailer in Manchester. The original failure was: An MPLS VPN packet arrives with an outer transport label and inner service label; an operator interprets both labels as unrelated IP headers.
Incorrect Answers
That observation verifies lsp versus ip reachability in a different situation, such as when iCMP works between provider loopbacks but a customer VPN is unreachable; the engineer concludes this proves MPLS label switching works. For the reported label stack for vpn incident at a nationwide retailer in Manchester, the required acceptance evidence is: Transit P routers switch the outer label while the egress PE uses the remaining service label to select customer forwarding. This other result does not test that condition directly.
That observation verifies provider core label loss in a different situation, such as when core IGP routes are stable but the ingress PE has no remote label for the required egress PE FEC. For the reported label stack for vpn incident at a nationwide retailer in Manchester, the required acceptance evidence is: Transit P routers switch the outer label while the egress PE uses the remaining service label to select customer forwarding. This other result does not test that condition directly.
That observation verifies ldp igp synchronization in a different situation, such as when an IGP path becomes active across a core link before its label bindings are ready, causing a temporary VPN traffic blackhole. For the reported label stack for vpn incident at a nationwide retailer in Manchester, the required acceptance evidence is: Transit P routers switch the outer label while the egress PE uses the remaining service label to select customer forwarding. This other result does not test that condition directly.