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300-410 Practice Question: Configures PBR on a router to route traffic from…
A network engineer configures PBR on a router to route traffic from subnet 10.1.1.0/24 via next-hop 192.168.1.2. The route-map uses match ip address and set ip next-hop commands. However, traffic sourced from 10.1.1.5 still follows the routing table instead of the PBR policy. What is the most likely cause?
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The router is generating the traffic locally (e.g., ping from the router), and PBR does not apply to local packets without 'ip local policy route-map'.
PBR processes only transit traffic; locally generated packets (e.g., from the router itself) are not affected by PBR unless the 'ip local policy route-map' command is used. The engineer must apply PBR globally for local packets.
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The route-map is applied to the wrong interface (outbound instead of inbound).
Why it's wrong here
PBR is applied inbound; applying outbound would not affect incoming traffic.
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The router is generating the traffic locally (e.g., ping from the router), and PBR does not apply to local packets without 'ip local policy route-map'.
Why this is correct
Local packets require 'ip local policy route-map' to be influenced by PBR.
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The ACL in the route-map is missing a permit statement for subnet 10.1.1.0/24.
Why it's wrong here
If the ACL were missing, no traffic would match, but the symptom points to local traffic.
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The next-hop 192.168.1.2 is not reachable via any directly connected interface.
Why it's wrong here
Unreachable next-hop would cause PBR to fall back to routing table, but the issue is specific to local traffic.
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