Question 690
A provider provisions an LDP-signaled pseudowire between two customer Ethernet ports. Observed: One endpoint reports a matching neighbor but pseudowire status stays Down. Which acceptance observation best confirms that the proposed change worked?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This acceptance criterion tests the actual fault. The source evidence was One endpoint reports a matching neighbor but pseudowire status stays Down. The correction addresses the local and remote virtual circuit identifiers do not match; success requires the L2 circuit becomes Up and customer frames traverse the pseudowire.
Incorrect Answers
That observation would verify a separate fault involving the vpls service still contains stale forwarding database or pseudowire mapping. Its symptom is Customer MAC addresses appear on the wrong PE after a planned move. For this case the actual issue is the local and remote virtual circuit identifiers do not match, and the relevant success signal is The L2 circuit becomes Up and customer frames traverse the pseudowire.
This result is useful in another case with evidence Both attachment PEs forward duplicate known unicast after migration. It does not test recovery from one endpoint reports a matching neighbor but pseudowire status stays down. Check instead whether the L2 circuit becomes Up and customer frames traverse the pseudowire.
It confirms an unrelated service correction: The attachment circuit and pseudowire do not share a compatible effective MTU. The present case reports One endpoint reports a matching neighbor but pseudowire status stays Down. Its completion test is The L2 circuit becomes Up and customer frames traverse the pseudowire.