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Start IPv6 Tunneling Techniques PracticeA network engineer is troubleshooting an IPv6 connectivity issue between two sites connected via a 6to4 tunnel. The tunnel is configured on both routers and shows as up/up, but the engineer cannot ping the IPv6 address of the remote tunnel endpoint. The engineer checks the routing table and sees no route to the remote IPv6 prefix. What is the most likely cause of this problem?
Explanation: For a 6to4 tunnel, the IPv6 address on the tunnel interface must be derived from the tunnel source's public IPv4 address using the 2002:IPv4-address::/48 prefix format. If the tunnel source interface has a private IPv4 address (e.g., 10.0.0.1), the resulting 6to4 prefix (2002:0a00:0001::/48) is non-routable over the public Internet because private addresses are not globally unique. This causes the remote router to have no route to the invalid prefix, breaking connectivity even though the tunnel interface is up/up.
An engineer is troubleshooting an ISATAP tunnel between a Windows host and a Cisco router. The host can ping the router's IPv6 address configured on the tunnel interface, but cannot reach any other IPv6 networks beyond the router. The router has a default route pointing to an upstream IPv6 router. What is the most likely cause?
Explanation: The correct answer is A. For ISATAP to function, the router must be explicitly configured as an ISATAP router using the 'ipv6 isatap' command under the tunnel interface. Without this command, the router will not advertise the ISATAP prefix or respond to Router Solicitations from the host, so the host can only communicate with the router's own tunnel IPv6 address but cannot learn a default route or reach other IPv6 networks.
A network engineer is troubleshooting a manual IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel between two Cisco routers. The tunnel is up, and both routers can ping each other's tunnel IPv6 addresses. However, traffic from a host behind Router A to a host behind Router B fails. The engineer notices that Router A has a route to the remote IPv6 prefix via the tunnel, but Router B does not have a route to the local IPv6 prefix. What is the most likely cause?
Explanation: The tunnel is up and both routers can ping each other's tunnel IPv6 addresses, confirming that the tunnel itself is operational. However, traffic from a host behind Router A to a host behind Router B fails because Router B lacks a route back to the local IPv6 prefix (the network behind Router A). For bidirectional communication, both routers must have a route to the remote IPv6 prefix pointing to the tunnel interface. Since Router B is missing this static route, it cannot forward return traffic into the tunnel, causing the failure.
An engineer is troubleshooting a GRE IPv6 tunnel between two sites. The tunnel is up, and the engineer can ping the remote tunnel endpoint IPv6 address. However, OSPFv3 neighbors over the tunnel fail to form. The engineer verifies that OSPFv3 is configured on both tunnel interfaces with the same area and that the network type is broadcast. What is the most likely cause?
Explanation: The GRE tunnel MTU of 1500 bytes does not account for the 24-byte GRE/IPv6 encapsulation overhead (20-byte IPv6 header + 4-byte GRE header). OSPFv3 packets, which can be up to 1500 bytes, become fragmented when encapsulated, but fragmentation is often disabled or handled poorly in tunnel interfaces, preventing OSPFv3 neighbor formation. This is the most likely cause because the tunnel is up and the endpoint is reachable, but the OSPFv3 packets are being dropped or corrupted due to fragmentation.
A network engineer is troubleshooting an IPv6 connectivity problem across an IPv4 MPLS network using 6PE. The 6PE routers have MP-BGP sessions to exchange IPv6 prefixes, and the tunnel between them is up. However, a customer edge router behind one 6PE router cannot reach an IPv6 prefix behind the other 6PE router. The engineer checks the 6PE router's BGP table and sees the prefix, but the routing table shows the next-hop as unreachable. What is the most likely cause?
Explanation: In 6PE, the BGP next-hop for an IPv6 prefix is the IPv4 address of the remote 6PE router. The 6PE router must have a label-switched path (LSP) to that IPv4 next-hop, which requires a working MPLS LDP session to distribute a label for that IPv4 address. If the LDP session is down, no label exists for the BGP next-hop, making it unreachable in the routing table even though the BGP table contains the prefix.
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