Question 320
An EIGRP successor route fails and an engineer expects a new topology calculation even though a feasible successor has already been learned. During troubleshooting: A neighboring path is not considered a feasible successor because its reported distance is not lower than the feasible distance. Which underlying cause best explains the recorded behavior?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The actual technical cause is: EIGRP's feasibility condition prevents an unsafe backup from being preinstalled. It specifically explains the observation: a neighboring path is not considered a feasible successor because its reported distance is not lower than the feasible distance. The correcting configuration is: use the EIGRP feasible successor where the feasibility condition is met to enable fast local backup.
Incorrect Answers
That diagnosis is supported by a different symptom: An enterprise router cannot participate in a proprietary vendor-specific routing process. Here the recorded observation is: a neighboring path is not considered a feasible successor because its reported distance is not lower than the feasible distance. The applicable cause is: eIGRP's feasibility condition prevents an unsafe backup from being preinstalled.
That diagnosis is supported by a different symptom: The backup provider receives an equally short AS_PATH and incoming traffic does not prefer the primary as intended. Here the recorded observation is: a neighboring path is not considered a feasible successor because its reported distance is not lower than the feasible distance. The applicable cause is: eIGRP's feasibility condition prevents an unsafe backup from being preinstalled.
That diagnosis is supported by a different symptom: The EIGRP internal route is installed even though an OSPF advertisement shows a small numerical metric. Here the recorded observation is: a neighboring path is not considered a feasible successor because its reported distance is not lower than the feasible distance. The applicable cause is: eIGRP's feasibility condition prevents an unsafe backup from being preinstalled.






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