A financial services company runs HSRP at the edge of its network to allow for redundancy for the default gateway for its servers. The CTO of the company is concerned that the failover time for HSRP is too slow and a different mechanism should be used. The network engineer disagrees and believes that HSRP can provide the required fast down detection and failover for the edge of the network. Which option is the fastest down detection and failover solution for this HSRP environment?
A) Limit the Layer 2 broadcast domain.
B) Decrease the HSRP timers.
C) Implement BFD.
D) Migrate from IEEE 802.1D to 802.1w.
E) Implement HSRP preemption.

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) provides rapid detection of failures in the path between two forwarding engines, which can significantly speed up the failover process in an HSRP environment.

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