Question 190
An IS-IS core swaps a routing engine after unplanned power loss. Observed: Neighbors show Up but a route is transiently absent on one PE. What evidence would validate recovery from this precise failure mode?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The intended result is All devices agree on the LSP sequence and routing destinations become reachable. It specifically verifies recovery from spf and forwarding updates have not reconciled with a fresh lsdb after recovery, which produced the original symptom: Neighbors show Up but a route is transiently absent on one PE. It is stronger evidence than a generic interface-up indicator.
Incorrect Answers
It confirms an unrelated service correction: An unstable interface causes repeated topology regenerations and SPF scheduling. The present case reports Neighbors show Up but a route is transiently absent on one PE. Its completion test is All devices agree on the LSP sequence and routing destinations become reachable.
That observation would verify a separate fault involving authentication method and key match do not agree between adjacent peers. Its symptom is Adjacencies flap only when authentication is enabled. For this case the actual issue is spf and forwarding updates have not reconciled with a fresh lsdb after recovery, and the relevant success signal is All devices agree on the LSP sequence and routing destinations become reachable.
This result is useful in another case with evidence Paths appear with maximum legacy metric rather than engineering cost. It does not test recovery from neighbors show up but a route is transiently absent on one pe. Check instead whether all devices agree on the LSP sequence and routing destinations become reachable.