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JUNOS Enterprise Switching
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JUNOS Enterprise Switching

by Harry Reynolds, Doug Marschke
July 2009
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
23h 19m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter Review Answers

  1. Answer: E. MAC limits on the EX are port-level settings, not VLAN-level settings. Failing to learn a MAC can result in flooding within the VLAN for that MAC, but this is not precluded by any specification, and you could choose to disable the port upon a violation if flooding is an issue. By limiting the number of MACs, you prevent MAC table overflow and the potential for flooding of previously learned addresses, which could pose a security or performance threat.

  2. Answer: A. ARP inspection is based on the information contained in the DHCP snooping database. It prevents ARP spoofing, not IP address spoofing. The latter is still possible with a static ARP entry that would bypass the need for ARP. IP Source Guard prevents IP address spoofing.

  3. Answer: False. Access links are untrusted for DHCP by default. Trunk interfaces are trusted by default. Use the dhcp-trusted setting at the [edit ethernet-switching-options secure-access-port interface <interface-name>] hierarchy to permit a DHCP server on an access link when you enable the DHCP snooping feature.

  4. Answer: D. All of the features listed are set on a VLAN basis at the [edit ethernet-switching-options secure-access-port vlan <vlan-name>] hierarchy.

  5. Answer: C. Of the options listed, only EAP-TLS is certificate-based. In fact, MAC authentication is not an EAP method at all!

  6. Answer: D. MAC authorization can be local or via a RADIUS server and neither method disables EAP methods on the related interface. The former bypasses ...

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