JN0-363 Exam Dumps : Service Provider Routing and Switching, Specialist (JNCIS-SP)

Neighbors Stuck in Exstart/Exchange State The problem occurs most frequently when you attempt to run OSPF between a Cisco router and another vendor router. The problem occurs when the maximum transmission unit (MTU) settings for neighboring router interfaces do not match. If the router with the higher MTU sends a packet larger that the MTU set on the neighboring router, the neighbor router ignores the packet. When this problem occurs, the output of the show ip ospf neighbor command displays output similar to what is shown in this figure.

A mismatched Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) setting on OSPF interfaces can cause routers to get stuck in the ExStart state. OSPF requires that both sides of a link have the same MTU to form a full adjacency.References:

• OSPF Troubleshooting, Juniper Networks Documentation
• MTU and OSPF, Juniper Networks Documentation

The adjacency SID in segment routing is advertised by one router to inform another about the label that should be used to forward traffic to it over a particular link. In this scenario, Router B would advertise an adjacency SID to Router A, which would be usedby Router A to forward traffic to Router B. Based on the exhibit, the adjacency SID that Router B advertises to Router A would be 12.

References:

• Juniper Networks documentation on Segment Routing: Segment Routing Overview

In MPLS, multiple paths can be merged if they share the same egress router. In the given scenario, traffic from Network 1 to Network 3 and Network 4 can be engineered to follow the same label-switched path (LSP) within the MPLS network until they reach the last common point before diverging to their respective destinations.

As for R3 performing label operations, in a typical MPLS network, intermediate routers (like R3) perform label swapping. They replace the incoming label with a new label before forwarding the packet along the LSP. A label pop operation is typically performed by the egress router in the case of an ultimate hop pop (UHP), where it removes the MPLS label before delivering the packet to the final destination outside the MPLS domain.

References

• Juniper Networks Technical Documentation on MPLS
• Understanding MPLS Label Operations (Swap, Push, and Pop) - Juniper Networks