Question 60
A shared Ethernet OSPF segment contains three routers at different software releases. Observed: One neighbor never forms adjacency although ping and VLAN connectivity work. Which ongoing validation gate would best detect a recurrence of this problem?
Explanation
Correct Answer
A useful regression gate tests whether adjacencies form normally without relying on reduced safety checks and alerts when one neighbor never forms adjacency although ping and VLAN connectivity work. This directly checks the technical weakness: Hello and dead timer settings differ across the candidate neighbors. The gate is derived from the fictional incident and is not an independent Juniper engineer signoff.
Incorrect Answers
This gate monitors a different failure, one nonbackbone area becomes unreachable although all its local neighbors remain full. It would not detect the current problem: One neighbor never forms adjacency although ping and VLAN connectivity work. The appropriate check requires adjacencies form normally without relying on reduced safety checks.
The proposed control is tied to ospf was enabled for route advertisement but the interface was not made passive, typically observed when a multicast Hello is sent into the customer VLAN during onboarding. Here the target is hello and dead timer settings differ across the candidate neighbors; monitor adjacencies form normally without relying on reduced safety checks.
It is valid for another service scenario but checks the rib points at a reachable next hop but the fib sends traffic into a loop. This case instead needs a gate for one neighbor never forms adjacency although ping and vlan connectivity work and evidence that adjacencies form normally without relying on reduced safety checks.