Question 570
During a planned campus-network change at a university faculty building in Boston, operators discover that the OSPF cost policy for redundant campus uplinks is inconsistent with the design's preferred path. The design must preserve teaching tools and shared printers. What evidence should the engineer request after the repair?
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This observation tests the OSPF path metric and convergence requirement at a university faculty building in Boston. The expected result is that the selected OSPF path reflects approved cost policy and a controlled link failure converges to the intended backup. The necessary correction is to verify OSPF costs and advertised prefix reachability on the intended paths, then tune metric or failover requirements; a saved configuration alone would not prove it is working. In this case, the observed fault is that the OSPF cost policy for redundant campus uplinks is inconsistent with the design's preferred path.
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At a university faculty building in Boston, this would verify Static/default route and route preference, not the failure reported in this scenario. The requested closure criterion instead concerns OSPF path metric and convergence: the selected OSPF path reflects approved cost policy and a controlled link failure converges to the intended backup.
At a university faculty building in Boston, the observation may be useful for a separate VRF segmentation and routing isolation test, but it does not establish that the OSPF cost policy for redundant campus uplinks is inconsistent with the design's preferred path has been resolved. The relevant check is the OSPF path metric and convergence outcome.
At a university faculty building in Boston, this measures a different network requirement, Dynamic route filtering and redistribution. The case describes that the OSPF cost policy for redundant campus uplinks is inconsistent with the design's preferred path, so accepting this result would leave the primary fault without direct verification.