Question 200
During a planned campus-network change at a public library in Portland, operators discover that an interface is reachable after failover but hosts still ARP for a decommissioned gateway address. The design must preserve staff and visitor wireless access. Which post-change observation is the strongest acceptance evidence?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This observation tests the First-hop gateway redundancy and failover requirement at a public library in Portland. The expected result is that hosts retain the intended gateway identity and route through an available peer when the active first-hop device is lost. The necessary correction is to configure and verify a supported first-hop redundancy mechanism with correct virtual gateway address and ownership; a saved configuration alone would not prove it is working. In this case, the observed fault is that an interface is reachable after failover but hosts still ARP for a decommissioned gateway address.
Incorrect Answers
At a public library in Portland, the observation may be useful for a separate VSF member roles and stack consistency test, but it does not establish that an interface is reachable after failover but hosts still ARP for a decommissioned gateway address has been resolved. The relevant check is the First-hop gateway redundancy and failover outcome.
At a public library in Portland, this measures a different network requirement, Multi-chassis LAGs and active paths. The case describes that an interface is reachable after failover but hosts still ARP for a decommissioned gateway address, so accepting this result would leave the primary fault without direct verification.
At a public library in Portland, this would verify VSX inter-switch link and keepalive, not the failure reported in this scenario. The requested closure criterion instead concerns First-hop gateway redundancy and failover: hosts retain the intended gateway identity and route through an available peer when the active first-hop device is lost.