Question 860
At Maplewood Schools, the district IT security team administers FortiGate-based protection for school campuses and a central datacenter under requirements for student protection and restricted management interfaces. The security reviewer verifies a claimed fix for: Two subsidiaries use overlapping RFC1918 addresses and a straightforward route-based IPsec tunnel sends packets to ambiguous destinations. Which observed outcome BEST demonstrates that the intended correction works?
Explanation
Correct Answer
A test from each site reaches the correct intended remote service through an unambiguous tunnel route without leaking other subnets. This outcome validates the intended correction for: Two subsidiaries use overlapping RFC1918 addresses and a straightforward route-based IPsec tunnel sends packets to ambiguous destinations. The associated approved corrective action is: Plan unique prefixes or an explicitly scoped translated VPN addressing architecture before advertising overlapping networks. The Maplewood Schools reviewer can therefore distinguish observable protection from an untested configuration claim.
Incorrect Answers
After a planned primary ISP outage, a new authorized intersite connection uses the backup IPsec tunnel and returns successfully. This would verify a separate corrective action: Configure supported redundant IPsec tunnels and route preferences across independent WAN paths with matching partner settings. That separate change addresses: A company provisions only one IPsec path to its main office although the connectivity requirement explicitly includes diverse ISP failover. It does not validate the current Maplewood Schools issue: Two subsidiaries use overlapping RFC1918 addresses and a straightforward route-based IPsec tunnel sends packets to ambiguous destinations. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A test from each site reaches the correct intended remote service through an unambiguous tunnel route without leaking other subnets.
The tunnel rekeys during a controlled observation without repeated negotiation failures or loss outside the approved window. This would verify a separate corrective action: Review IKE and IPsec SA lifetimes and align supported rekey parameters on both FortiGate and partner endpoints. That separate change addresses: A long-lived IPsec tunnel drops intermittently during rekey because the peers use incompatible lifetime or rekey settings. It does not validate the current Maplewood Schools issue: Two subsidiaries use overlapping RFC1918 addresses and a straightforward route-based IPsec tunnel sends packets to ambiguous destinations. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A test from each site reaches the correct intended remote service through an unambiguous tunnel route without leaking other subnets.
The report traces an authorized test packet from its original subnet into the expected SA and back from the peer with matching logs. This would verify a separate corrective action: Correlate specific tunnel interface routes, Phase 2 selectors, firewall policy IDs and encrypted packet counters for a controlled test flow. That separate change addresses: An IPsec troubleshooting report lists only green tunnel status without showing whether the application packets use the correct security association. It does not validate the current Maplewood Schools issue: Two subsidiaries use overlapping RFC1918 addresses and a straightforward route-based IPsec tunnel sends packets to ambiguous destinations. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A test from each site reaches the correct intended remote service through an unambiguous tunnel route without leaking other subnets.