Which action does route poisoning take that serves as a loop-prevention method?

Which action does route poisoning take that serves as a loop-prevention method?

Which action does route poisoning take that serves as a loop-prevention method?

A.
It immediately sends routing updates with an unreachable metric to all devices.

B.
It immediately sends routing updates with a metric of 255 to all devices.

C.
It prohibits a router from advertising back onto the interface from which it was learned.

D.
It advertises a route with an unreachable metric back onto the interface from which it was
learned.

E.
It poisons the route by tagging it uniquely within the network.



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scooby

scooby

With route poisoning, when a router detects that one of its connected routes has failed, the router will poison the route by assigning an infinite metric to it and advertising it to neighbors.

hashim

hashim

I think answer D should be the right answer,

Answer A is used for convergance speedup, not for loop prevention

Maluco Beleza

Maluco Beleza

Option D is poison reverse.