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Review Questions

1:

What are the three primary concerns when considering fast convergence in a network?

2:

What is a network meltdown, and what is the basic reason behind most network meltdowns?

3:

What are the primary techniques that routing protocol designers and implementers use to prevent network meltdowns?

4:

What technologies, when combined, allow a network to route through a problem, rather than around it?

5:

What time constraints does a router have when it restarts under GR?

6:

What are the two types of OSPF GR, and what is the difference between the two?

7:

What are the two types of IS-IS GR, and what is the difference between them?

8:

What is the fastest hello time available on OSPF and IS-IS? What is the dead interval when the hellos are transmitted this quickly?

9:

What is the biggest issue with all fast-polling mechanisms for fast down detection?

10:

What is the essential mechanism or principle behind exponential backoff?

11:

What is the essential mechanism or principle behind dampening?

12:

What part of an SPF tree does a partial SPF recompute?

13:

What part of an SPF tree does an incremental SPF recompute?

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