Juniper JN0-664 Service Provider Professional (JNCIP-SP) Exam Practice Test

The vrf-target export parameter is used to specify one or more BGP extended community attributes that are attached to VPN routes when they are exported from a VRF routing instance to remote PE routers. This parameter allows you to control which VPN routes are accepted by remote PE routers based on their import policies. You can specify more than one vrf-target export value for a VRF routing instance to support advanced route filtering or route leaking scenarios.

To allow Site 1 to access three VLANs that are located in Site 2 and Site 3, you need to configure three L2VPN routing instances on PE-1, one for each VLAN. Each L2VPN routing instance will have a different VLAN ID and a different VNI for VXLAN encapsulation. Each L2VPN routing instance will also have a different vrf-target export value to identify which VPN routes belong to which VLAN. This way, PE-1 can forward traffic from Site 1 to Site 2 and Site 3 based on the VLAN tags and VNIs.

The explicit-null statement enables the PE router to send an MPLS label with a value of 0 (explicit null) instead of an IP header for packets destined to the VPN customer sites. This allows the penultimate hop router (the router before the egress PE router) to preserve the EXP bits of the MPLS label and pass them to the egress PE router. The egress PE router can then use these EXP bits to classify the traffic according to the CoS policy2. In this example, PE-1 should configure the explicit-null statement under [edit protocols mpls label-switched-path PE-1_to_PE-2] hierarchy level.

In the context of Layer 3 VPNs (L3VPN) using MPLS, the routing information for different customers (VPNs) is typically stored in separate routing tables (VRFs). When you want to verify that PE2 is receiving the VPN routes for Customer C from PE1, you need to check the appropriate VRF routing table on PE2.

1. **Option A: show route table customer-c.inet.0**

- This command displays the routing table specific to Customer C's VRF.

- Since we want to verify that PE2 has received the VPN routes for Customer C, this is the most appropriate command to use.

- It allows us to see all routes learned for Customer C's VPN.

2. **Option B: show route table bgp.l3vpn.0**

- This command displays the BGP routing table for all L3VPN routes.

- While this includes routes for Customer C, it also includes routes for all other VPNs, making it harder to isolate the specific information for Customer C.

- This command is more useful for an overall view of BGP L3VPN routes rather than for a specific customer's VRF.

3. **Option C: show route summary**

- This command provides a summary of the routes in all routing tables.

- It doesn't give detailed information about the specific routes for Customer C's VRF.

- It's useful for a high-level overview but not for verifying specific customer routes.

4. **Option D: show route table inet.0**

- This command shows the global routing table, not the VRF-specific tables.

- The global routing table doesn't contain the VPN-specific routes that are stored in the VRF tables.

- Therefore, it won't help in verifying the routes for Customer C.

**Conclusion**:

To verify that PE2 is receiving VPN routes for Customer C from PE1, the most appropriate command is to check the specific VRF routing table for Customer C. Hence, the correct answer is:

**A. show route table customer-c.inet.0**

**References**:

- Junos OS documentation on MPLS VPNs: [Junos MPLS VPNs

- Command Reference for Routing Tables: [Junos OS Routing Tables Command

The configuration shown in the exhibit is for a Layer 3 VPN that connects customer sites that use different AS numbers. A Layer 3 VPN is a type of VPN that uses MPLS labels to forward packets across a provider network and BGP to exchange routing information between PE routers and CE routers. A Layer 3 VPN allows customers to use different routing protocols and AS numbers at their sites, as long as they can peer with BGP at the PE-CE interface. In this example, CE-1 is using AS 65530 and CE-2 is using AS 65531, but they can still communicate through the VPN because they have BGP sessions with PE-1 and PE-2, respectively.

BGP Layer 2 VPNs use BGP to distribute endpoint provisioning information and set up pseudowires between PE devices. BGP uses the Layer 2 VPN (L2VPN) Routing Information Base (RIB) to store endpoint provisioning information, which is updated each time any Layer 2 virtual forwarding instance (VFI) is configured. The prefix and path information is stored in the L2VPN database, which allows BGP to make decisions about the best path.

In BGP Layer 2 VPNs, each site has a unique site ID that identifies it within a VFI. The site ID can be manually configured or automatically assigned by the PE device. By default, the site ID is automatically assigned based on the order that you add the interfaces to the site configuration. The first interface added to a site configuration has a site ID of 1, the second interface added has a site ID of 2, and so on.

Option D is correct because by default on PE-2, the remote site IDs are automatically assigned based on the order that you add the interfaces to the site configuration. Option A is not correct because by default on PE-2, the site’s local ID is automatically assigned a value of 0 and does not need to be configured to match the total number of attached sites. Option B is not correct because you do not need to create a unique Layer 2 VPN routing instance for each site on the PE-2 device. You can create one routing instance for all sites within a VFI. Option C is not correct because you do not need to use separate physical interfaces to connect PE-2 to each site. You can use subinterfaces or service instances on a single physical interface.

In the context of Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and the behavior described in the exhibit, it's essential to understand the different EVPN route types and their specific functionalities. Here, CE-2 is receiving unicast traffic on both of its multihomed links to PE-2 and PE-3, but broadcast traffic is received only on one of these links.

**Explanation of EVPN Route Types**:

1. **Type 1 (Ethernet Auto-Discovery Routes)**:

- These routes are used for auto-discovery of Ethernet segments and for advertising VLAN membership.

- They do not directly influence the behavior described in the question.

2. **Type 2 (MAC/IP Advertisement Routes)**:

- These routes are used to advertise MAC addresses and IP-to-MAC bindings within the EVPN.

- They handle unicast traffic forwarding and are crucial for populating the MAC address tables on the PE devices.

- While important, they do not explain the selective broadcast behavior.

3. **Type 3 (Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag Routes)**:

- These routes are used to build multicast distribution trees for delivering broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) traffic.

- They ensure that BUM traffic is sent only once per Ethernet segment, preventing duplicate frames from being sent to multihomed CEs.

- This aligns with the behavior described where CE-2 receives broadcast traffic on only one link to prevent duplication.

4. **Type 4 (Ethernet Segment Routes)**:

- These routes are used to advertise the presence of an Ethernet segment and are crucial for Designated Forwarder (DF) election processes in multihoming scenarios.

- While relevant to multihoming, they are not directly responsible for the selective broadcast behavior.

**Conclusion**:

The behavior described, where CE-2 receives broadcast traffic on only one of its multihomed links, is controlled by Type 3 routes. These routes are specifically designed to handle inclusive multicast and broadcast traffic efficiently in EVPN environments, ensuring that such traffic is not duplicated across multiple links to the same CE.

**References**:

- Juniper Networks EVPN Documentation: [EVPN

- RFC 7432, BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN: [RFC provides detailed descriptions of EVPN route types and their functions.

- Junos OS EVPN Configuration Guide: [Junos OS EVPN Configuration

The correct order of packet flow through configurable components in the Junos OS CoS features is as follows:

Behavior Aggregate Classifier: This component uses a single field in a packet header to classify traffic into different forwarding classes and loss priorities based on predefined or user-defined values.

Input Policer: This component applies rate-limiting and marking actions to incoming traffic based on the forwarding class and loss priority assigned by the classifier.

Multifield Classifier: This component uses multiple fields in a packet header to classify traffic into different forwarding classes and loss priorities based on user-defined values and filters.

Forwarding Policy Options: This component applies actions such as load balancing, filtering, or routing to traffic based on the forwarding class and loss priority assigned by the classifier.

Fabric Scheduler: This component schedules traffic across the switch fabric based on the forwarding class and loss priority assigned by the classifier.

Output Policer: This component applies rate-limiting and marking actions to outgoing traffic based on the forwarding class and loss priority assigned by the classifier.

Scheduler/Shaper/RED: This component schedules, shapes, and drops traffic at the egress interface based on the forwarding class and loss priority assigned by the classifier.

Rewrite Marker: This component rewrites the code-point bits of packets leaving an interface based on the forwarding class and loss priority assigned by the classifier.

The OSPF cost is carried in the LSAs that are exchanged within an OSPF area. When a router calculates the cost to a destination it uses the cost of the exit interface of each router in the path to the destination.

To reduce the impact of suboptimal routing in OSPF and OSPFv3 after devices reboot, you can use the overload feature to prevent a router from being used as a transit router for a specified period of time. This allows the router to stabilize its routing table before forwarding traffic for other routers. To enable the overload feature, you need to do the following:

For OSPF, configure the overload statement under [edit protocols ospf] hierarchy level. You can also specify a timeout value in seconds to indicate how long the router should remain in overload state after it boots up. For example, set protocols ospf overload timeout 900 means that the router will be in overload state for 15 minutes after it boots up.

For OSPFv3, configure the overload statement under [edit protocols ospf3] hierarchy level. You can also specify a realm (ipv4-unicast or ipv6-unicast) and a timeout value in seconds to indicate how long the router should remain in overload state after it boots up for each realm. For example, set protocols ospf3 realm ipv4-unicast overload timeout 900 means that the router will be in overload state for 15 minutes after it boots up for IPv4 unicast routing.

OSPF uses different types of LSAs to describe different aspects of the network topology. Type 1 LSAs are also known as router LSAs, and they describe the links and interfaces of a router within an area. Type 3 LSAs are also known as summary LSAs, and they describe routes to networks outside an area but within the same autonomous system (AS). By default, OSPF will summarize routes from Type 1 LSAs into Type 3 LSAs when advertising them across area boundaries .

PIM sparse mode (PIM-SM) is a multicast routing protocol that uses a pull model to deliver multicast traffic. In PIM-SM, routers with receivers send join messages to their upstream neighbors toward a rendezvous point (RP) or a source-specific tree (SPT). The RP or SPT acts as the root of a shared distribution tree for a multicast group. Traffic is only forwarded to routers that request to join the distribution tree by sending join messages. PIM-SM does not flood traffic to all routers or prune routers without receivers, as PIM dense mode does.

IS-IS is an interior gateway protocol that uses link-state routing to exchange routing information among routers within a single autonomous system. IS-IS uses two types of addresses to identify routers and areas: system ID and area address. The system ID is a unique identifier for each router in an IS-IS domain. The system ID is 6 octets long and can be derived from the MAC address or manually configured. The area address is a variable-length identifier for each area in an IS-IS domain. The area address can be 1 to 13 octets long and is composed of high-order octets of the address. An IS-IS instance may be assigned multiple area addresses, which are considered synonymous. Multiple synonymous area addresses are useful when merging or splitting areas in the domain1. In this question, we have a network based on IS-IS with four routers (R1_1, R1_2, R2_1, and R2_2) belonging to area 0001. The area address for area 0001 is 49.0001. The NSEL byte for area 0001 is the last octet of the address, which is 01. The NSEL byte stands for Network Service Access Point Selector (NSAP Selector) and indicates the type of service requested from the network layer2. Therefore, the correct statement in this scenario is that the NSEL byte for area 0001 is 01.

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amplification attacks are a type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that exploit the characteristics of certain protocols to amplify the traffic sent to a victim. For example, an attacker can send a small DNS query with a spoofed source IP address to a DNS server, which will reply with a much larger response to the victim. This way, the attacker can generate a large amount of traffic with minimal resources.

One of the methods to protect against amplification attacks is destination-based Remote Triggered Black Hole (RTBH) filtering. This technique allows a network operator to drop traffic destined to a specific IP address or prefix at the edge of the network, thus preventing it from reaching the victim and consuming bandwidth and resources. RTBH filtering can be implemented using BGP to propagate a special route with a next hop of 192.0.2.1 (a reserved address) to the edge routers. Any traffic matching this route will be discarded by the edge routers.

The hello interval is the time interval between two consecutive hello packets sent by an OSPF router on an interface. The dead interval is the time interval after which a neighbor is declared down if no hello packets are received from it. These parameters must match between two OSPF routers for them to form an adjacency. In the exhibit, router R1 has a hello interval of 10 seconds and a dead interval of 40 seconds, while router R2 has a hello interval of 30 seconds and a dead interval of 120 seconds. This causes a mismatch and prevents them from becoming neighbors23.

In IS-IS (Intermediate System to Intermediate System) routing, each router is identified by a unique ISO (International Organization for Standardization) address, also known as a Network Entity Title (NET). The NET consists of three parts:

1. **Area Identifier**: Indicates the area to which the router belongs.

2. **System Identifier**: Uniquely identifies the router within the area.

3. **NSAP Selector (NSEL)**: Typically set to 00 for a router, indicating the Network Service Access Point.

The format of the ISO address is `49.XXXX.YYYY.YYYY.ZZZZ.ZZZZ.00`, where:

- `49` is the AFI (Authority and Format Identifier) indicating a private address.

- `XXXX` is the Area Identifier.

- `YYYY.YYYY.YYYY` is the System Identifier.

- `ZZZZ.ZZZZ` is the NSAP Selector.

Given the address `49.0001.00a0.c96b.c490.00`:

- **Area Identifier**: `49.0001`

- **System Identifier**: `00a0.c96b.c490`

- **NSAP Selector**: `00`

**Explanation**:

- **A. 00a0.c96b.c490 is the system identifier**:

- Correct. The System Identifier in an ISO address is a 48-bit (6-byte) field used to uniquely identify the router. In this address, `00a0.c96b.c490` is the correct 6-byte System Identifier.

- **B. 0001.00a0.c96b.c490 is the system identifier**:

- Incorrect. This includes the Area Identifier as part of the System Identifier, which is not correct.

- **C. c96b.c490 is the system identifier**:

- Incorrect. This is only part of the System Identifier. The full System Identifier must be 6 bytes long.

- **D. c490 is the system identifier**:

- Incorrect. This is an incomplete and incorrect part of the System Identifier.

**Conclusion**:

The correct part of the address that represents the System Identifier is:

**A. 00a0.c96b.c490 is the system identifier.**

**References**:

- Juniper Networks Documentation on IS-IS: [IS-IS

- ISO/IEC 10589, the IS-IS routing protocol standard.

A sham link is a logical link between two PE routers that belong to the same OSPF area but are connected through an L3VPN. A sham link makes the PE routers appear as if they are directly connected, and prevents OSPF from preferring an intra-area back door link over the VPN backbone. To create a sham link, you need to configure the local and remote addresses of the PE routers under the [edit protocols ospf area area-id] hierarchy level1.

The class-of-service (CoS) configuration in the exhibit shows how traffic is scheduled on the ge-0/0/0 interface. Let's analyze each statement to determine its correctness:

A. Incoming traffic will not be classified because no classifier exists in the configuration.

This statement is correct. The configuration shown does not include any classifier, so no explicit classification is defined. As a result, incoming traffic will not be classified according to any custom criteria.

B. The best-effort queue can transmit more than 40% of the total bandwidth on the ge-0/0/0 interface, if no other queue is using that bandwidth.

This statement is correct. The transmit-rate percent 40 means that 40% of the bandwidth is guaranteed for the best-effort queue, but it can use more bandwidth if other queues (like the priority scheduler) are not utilizing their allocated bandwidth.

C. Incoming traffic will be classified using the default classifier.

This statement is incorrect. Without an explicit classifier in the configuration, there is no mention of a default classifier being used. Therefore, the incoming traffic won't be classified based on the configuration shown.

D. The best-effort queue can never transmit more than 40% of the total bandwidth on the ge-0/0/0 interface, even if that bandwidth is available.

This statement is incorrect. The transmit-rate percent 40 sets a guaranteed minimum bandwidth but does not set a maximum limit. The best-effort queue can utilize more bandwidth if other queues are not using their allocated portions.

Bootstrap messages are PIM messages that are used to distribute rendezvous point (RP) information dynamically during an RP election. Bootstrap messages are sent by bootstrap routers (BSRs), which are routers that are elected to perform the RP discovery function for a PIM sparse-mode domain. Bootstrap messages contain information about candidate RPs and their multicast groups, as well as BSR priority and hash mask length. Bootstrap messages are forwarded to all routers within a PIM sparse-mode domain using hop-by-hop flooding.

In the provided exhibit, PE-1 and PE-2 are configured with LDP-signaled pseudowires to provide Layer 2 connectivity between CE-1 and CE-2. The issue is that there is no connectivity between CE-1 and CE-2. Let’s analyze the potential causes for this fault.

1. **LDP-Signaled Pseudowire (L2 Circuit) Configuration**:

- Pseudowires in MPLS networks use LDP (Label Distribution Protocol) to signal the virtual circuit (VC) labels between PE routers.

- For successful connectivity, the VC ID (Virtual Circuit Identifier) and LSPs (Label Switched Paths) between the PE routers must be correctly configured and operational.

2. **Analysis of the Exhibit**:

- The output shows the status of the L2 circuit connection on PE-1.

- The status (St) for the interface is `rmt Dn`, which indicates that the remote site (PE-2) is down or unreachable.

3. **Potential Causes**:

- **A. The VC IDs are mismatched**:

- Correct. If the VC IDs configured on PE-1 and PE-2 do not match, the L2 circuit cannot be established. Mismatched VC IDs prevent the pseudowire from forming correctly.

- **B. There is no LSP configured from PE-1 to PE-2**:

- Correct. LSPs are required for MPLS forwarding. If there is no LSP from PE-1 to PE-2, the LDP session cannot establish a path for the pseudowire. This results in the pseudowire being down.

- **C. Interface ge-0/0/0 on PE-1 is down**:

- Incorrect. The interface status is shown as `Up`, meaning the physical interface is operational.

- **D. There is no LSP configured from PE-2 to PE-1**:

- While this might seem like a potential issue, the specific problem of the remote site being down (`rmt Dn`) typically relates more directly to the forward path from PE-1 to PE-2 (i.e., no LSP from PE-1 to PE-2). Hence, the more accurate immediate cause is covered in Option B.

**Conclusion**:

Given the analysis, the correct statements describing potential causes for the fault are:

**A. The VC IDs are mismatched.**

**B. There is no LSP configured from PE-1 to PE-2.**

**References**:

- Juniper Networks Documentation on L2 Circuits: [Configuring Layer 2

- MPLS Configuration Guide: [Juniper MPLS

In IS-IS, a designated intermediate system (DIS) is a router that is elected on a multi-access network segment (such as Ethernet) to perform some functions on behalf of other routers on the same segment. A DIS is responsible for sending network link-state advertisements (LSPs), which describe all the routers attached to the network. These LSPs are flooded throughout a single area. A DIS also generates pseudonode LSPs, which represent the multi-access network as a single node in the link-state database. A DIS election is based on the priority value configured on each router’s interface connected to the multi-access network. The priority value ranges from 0 to 127, with higher values indicating higher priority. The router with the highest priority becomes the DIS for the area (Level 1, Level 2, or both). If routers have the same priority, then the router with the highest MAC address is elected as the DIS. By default, routers have a priority value of 64. On a multi-access network, each router only forms an adjacency to the DIS, not to every other router on the segment. This reduces the amount of hello packets and LSP