300-420 Exam Dumps : Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks (ENSLD) v1.1

TLOC extension is the Cisco SD-WAN mechanism that allows a WAN Edge router without direct access to a transport to reach that transport through another WAN Edge router at the same site. Cisco describes TLOC extension as a redundancy feature in SD-WAN networks. In the question, the WAN Edge router is connected to an MPLS transport link, but Internet access is available through another WAN Edge device. With TLOC extension, the MPLS-only edge can extend traffic through the peer router toward the Internet transport, allowing the site to use multiple transports without requiring every edge router to have a physical connection to every circuit. OMP can advertise routes and TLOCs, but OMP alone does not create physical Internet access for a router attached only to MPLS. Requiring a local 4G/5G or Internet circuit on the same router is not necessary when TLOC extension is part of the design. An MPLS extranet is also not the normal SD-WAN solution for Internet transport reachability. Therefore, TLOC extension is the correct design method.

BFD is the correct design feature for detecting a link failure within 200 ms or less without materially increasing OSPF control-plane load. Cisco uses Bidirectional Forwarding Detection as a fast, lightweight failure-detection protocol that can be associated with routing protocols such as OSPF. Instead of relying on aggressive OSPF hello and dead timers, BFD performs rapid forwarding-path checks and notifies OSPF when the path fails. This allows fast convergence while avoiding the additional routing-protocol overhead and instability that can come from very low hello timers. UDLD detects unidirectional Layer 2 fiber failures, but it is not the routing adjacency failure-detection mechanism requested here. Carrier delay can adjust interface state transition timing, but it does not provide a routing-protocol independent liveness session. Fast hellos can reduce detection time, but they increase protocol traffic and can affect overall performance. BFD is therefore the proper design choice for fast and efficient OSPF convergence. Reference topics: BFD, OSPF convergence, fast failure detection, routed campus resiliency, control-plane efficiency.

The SD-Access control-plane node performs the LISP Map-Server and Map-Resolver functions. Cisco SD-Access uses LISP in the control plane to maintain mappings between endpoint identifiers and routing locators. Fabric edge nodes discover local endpoints and register them with the control-plane node. When a destination endpoint is not known locally, a fabric node queries the control-plane node, which resolves the endpoint location and returns the locator information needed for VXLAN forwarding through the fabric. This is why the control-plane node is the correct answer. A fabric edge node connects endpoints, provides the anycast gateway, encapsulates and decapsulates user traffic, and registers endpoints. A border node connects the fabric to external networks. An intermediate node simply transports routed underlay traffic between fabric nodes and does not hold endpoint mappings. In design terms, control-plane placement and redundancy are critical because endpoint mobility, fabric forwarding lookup, and location resolution depend on stable Map-Server and Map-Resolver services. Reference topics: Cisco SD-Access control plane, LISP Map-Server, LISP Map-Resolver, EID-to-RLOC mapping, fabric edge registration.