Question 20
A network team observes: A capture on an Ethernet segment shows a valid IP payload inside a frame with an unexpected destination MAC. What is the MOST appropriate corrective action or technical decision?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Each hop changes link-layer encapsulation while the routed destination remains. The frame's next-hop destination is wrong even when the inner ip address is correct.
Incorrect Answers
Inspecting the access VLAN port state and MAC-learning controls rather than changing IP routes would not correct neighbor resolution or next-hop Layer 2 adjacency while retaining the intended IP destination.
Standardizing the negotiated character encoding and serialization format would not correct neighbor resolution or next-hop Layer 2 adjacency while retaining the intended IP destination.
The frame's next-hop destination is wrong even when the inner IP address is correct.






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