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AMAC address of FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FFis the Ethernetbroadcast address. When a switch receives a frame with this destination MAC address, it is required to forward the frame to all interfaces except the one it was received on.

Step-by-Step Breakdown:

Broadcast Frame Handling:When a frame with the broadcast MAC address is received, the switch will flood it out of all active ports that belong to the same VLAN as the incoming frame. The broadcast frame is not sent back out of the ingress interface (the interface where the frame was originally received).

Purpose of Flooding:Broadcasting is used to ensure that the frame reaches all devices within the broadcast domain (all devices within the same VLAN), which may not have a specific entry for the MAC address in their MAC address table.

Juniper Reference:

Layer 2 Frame Forwarding: Juniper switches flood broadcast frames to all ports in the same VLAN, except the port the frame was received on.

In the exhibit, the BGP routes are marked ashidden. This typically happens when the routes are not considered valid for use, but they remain in the routing table for reference. One common reason for BGP routes being hidden is that thenext hopfor these routes is unreachable.

Step-by-Step Breakdown:

BGP Next Hop:In BGP, when a route is received from a neighbor, thenext hopis the IP address that must be reachable for the route to be used. If the next hop is unreachable (i.e., the router cannot find a path to the next-hop IP), the route is marked as hidden.

Analyzing the Exhibit:The exhibit shows that the BGP next hop for all hidden routes is 10.4.4.4. If this IP is unreachable, the BGP routes from that neighbor will not be considered valid, even though they appear in the routing table.

Verification:

Use the command show route 10.4.4.4 to check if the next-hop IP is reachable.

If the next-hop is not reachable, the BGP routes will be hidden. Resolving the next-hop reachability issue (e.g., fixing an IGP route or an interface) will allow the BGP routes to become active.

Juniper Reference:

Junos Command: show route hidden displays routes that are not considered for forwarding.

Troubleshooting: Check the next hop reachability for hidden BGP routes using show route .

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)is a protocol used to detect faults in the forwarding path between two routers. It provides rapid failure detection, enhancing the performance of routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, and IS-IS.

Step-by-Step Breakdown:

Per Interface Configuration:BFD can be configured on aper-interfacebasis within the protocol stanza (e.g., OSPF, BGP). This allows granular control over where BFD is enabled and the failure detection intervals for specific interfaces.

Minimum Interval and Multiplier:BFD uses aminimum interval(the time between BFD control packets) and amultiplier(the number of missed packets before the path is declared down). The combination of these two defines the detection time for failures.

Juniper Reference:

BFD Configuration: In Juniper, BFD is configurable within routing protocol stanzas, with the failure detection mechanism always based on minimum intervals and multipliers.

Acollision domainis a network segment where data packets can "collide" with one another when being sent on the same network medium.

Step-by-Step Breakdown:

Increased Collision Probability:If all devices are in asingle collision domain, the likelihood of packet collisions increases as more devices attempt to send packets simultaneously, leading to network inefficiencies.

Increased Resource Consumption:More collisions result inincreased network resource consumptionas devices need to retransmit packets, causing higher utilization of bandwidth and slowing down network performance.

Juniper Reference:

Collision Domains: Proper network segmentation using switches reduces collision domains, thereby improving network performance and reducing packet collisions.