4A0-112 Exam Dumps : Nokia IS-IS Routing Protocol

From the output, we can see that theusagecolumn indicates whether a router is operating as an L1 or L2 router:

RoutersR1andR2have a usage ofL2, meaning they are L2 routers.

RoutersR3andR4have a usage ofL1, meaning they are L1 routers.

TheL1/L2designations refer to whether the routers participate in both Level 1 and Level 2 of IS-IS:

L1 routersonly communicate within their own area.

L2 routerscommunicate between areas.

In this case,R1andR2are L2 routers, andR3andR4are L1 routers.

In a single-area link-state routing protocol (such as OSPF), routers share specific information about the network topology, not their entire routing table. They exchangelink-state advertisements (LSAs)that contain information about their directly connected interfaces and their state, allowing other routers to build a consistent view of the network.

During the IP forwarding process, routers use the routing table to determine the next hop based on the destination IP address. The source IP address is not directly involved in the lookup process for forwarding.

The ARP table is used to map IP addresses to MAC addresses, specifically for resolving the MAC address of the next hop (destination MAC address) for forwarding packets within the local network.