QuestionQ3

Routing Fundamentals

A customer uses a Clos IP-fabric design in its data center.

What advantage does EBGP signaling between spine and leaf nodes provide instead of IBGP in this scenario?

Explanation

EBGP advertisements use the advertising router as the next hop by default, so routes exchanged across directly connected spine-to-leaf links have a reachable next hop without the additional next-hop resolution typically needed for IBGP-learned routes.

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